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HORI

4 letters

Definition of HORI

noun

A Māori.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Māori Hōri (“George”), itself from English George.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

HORI in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 4 boards so far.

Day 1Day 112
Its 4 boards, across 112 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
4
Boards found on
81
First board
100
Latest board
14
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 81, 9 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 100, 28 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.

First ever to find it

anomaly_winter

on Day 81, 9 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

HORI
4
Letters
2
Vowels
2
Consonants
4
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

HORI starts with H and ends with I. Sorted, its letters read HIOR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start HORI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

HORISHORIZONHORIZONSHORIATIKIHORIZONALHORIATIKISHORIZONTALHORIZONLESSHORIZONTALSHORIZONTALLYHORIZONTALITYHORIZONTALITIES

Could you have found HORI?

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 81 - and most players walked straight past it.

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