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HORNWORT
Definition of HORNWORT
noun
Any of certain bryophytes, of phylum Anthocerotophyta, with a leafless thallus characterized by a dominant gametophyte stage of the life cycle and a sporophyte stage shaped like a horn.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From horn + wort (“plant”), from the fact that the spores are produced in slender horn-shaped structures.
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.
HORNWORT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 124, 21 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 124, 21 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HORNWORT starts with H and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read HNOORRTW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O and R appear more than once.
Words that start HORNWO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found HORNWORT?
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 124 - and most players walked straight past it.
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