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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).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- German
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
8th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.1%
of traced words share this origin (914)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, HOOVER · 3 relatives 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.
HOOVER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 34 boards so far. 97 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 148, 15 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 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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