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HORNWRACK

9 letters

Definition of HORNWRACK

noun

A bryozoan of the genus Flustra, especially species Flustra foliacea.

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Where it comes from

From horn + wrack.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

nouncompound

Same root, HORNWRACK · 1 relative in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

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.

HORNWRACK in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far. 11 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 147
Its 2 boards, across 147 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
139
First board
140
Latest board
1
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 139, 6 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.

First found by a player on Day 139, 6 October 2026.

Built from these letters

HORNWRACK
9
Letters
2
Vowels
7
Consonants
8
Different letters
4
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

HORNWRACK starts with H and ends with K. Sorted, its letters read ACHKNORRW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once.

Words that start HORNWR

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found HORNWRACK?

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 139 - and most players walked straight past it.

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