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HORNTAIL
Definition of HORNTAIL
noun
The wood wasp.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From horn + tail.
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.
HORNTAIL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 69, 28 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 87, 15 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 15 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 69, 28 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HORNTAIL starts with H and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read AHILNORT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found HORNTAIL?
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 69 - and most players walked straight past it.
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