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HOOL
About HOOL
HOOL is a valid 4-letter word in OUTLIER, and one of the few with no English entry in Wiktionary - the dictionary a word game accepts is wider than the one an encyclopaedia keeps.
No definition is on file, so none is guessed at here.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HOOL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 25, 14 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 52, 11 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 70 days.
First found by a player on Day 25, 14 June 2026.
Built from these letters
HOOL starts with H and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read HLOO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start HOOL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 25
Could you have found HOOL?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 25 - and most players walked straight past it.
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