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HORNPIPE
Definition of HORNPIPE
noun
A musical instrument consisting of a wooden pipe, with holes at intervals.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English hornpipe, hornpype, hornepipe, equivalent to horn + pipe; so called because the bell at the open end was sometimes made of horn.
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.
HORNPIPE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 110, 7 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 110, 7 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HORNPIPE starts with H and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EHINOPPR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. P appears more than once.
Could you have found HORNPIPE?
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 110 - and most players walked straight past it.
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