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HOOLS
Definition of HOOLS
noun
plural of hool
noun
Clipping of hooligan (“a young person who causes trouble or violence, typically as a member of a gang or other group”).
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Word DNA
HOOLS inherits its ancestry from its root, HOOL.
How it is built
Same root, HOOL · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HOOLS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 157, 24 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 157, 24 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HOOLS starts with H and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read HLOOS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once, including a double letter.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found HOOLS?
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 157 - and most players walked straight past it.
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