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HOOVER
Definition of HOOVER
noun
A vacuum cleaner, irrespective of brand.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
A genericized trademark of Hoover, the brand name of one of the first vacuum cleaners, which was sold by The Hoover Company. The American company was founded by William Henry Hoover (1849–1932) and his son Herbert William Hoover, Sr. (1877–1954). The surname Hoover is an Anglicized version of the German Huber, originally designating a landowner or a prosperous small-scale farmer.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HOOVER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 20 boards so far. 38 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 96, 24 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
HOOVER starts with H and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read EHOORV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start HOOVER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found HOOVER?
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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.
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