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HORSESHOE
Definition of HORSESHOE
noun
The U-shaped shoe of a horse, now typically made of metal; by extension, a representation of this used to play the game horseshoes, hung as a luck charm, etc.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Inherited from Middle English horsscho, from hors + scho. By surface analysis, horse + shoe.
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.
HORSESHOE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 118, 15 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 118, 15 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HORSESHOE starts with H and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EEHHOORSS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. H, O, S and E appear more than once.
Words that start HORSES
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found HORSESHOE?
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 118 - and most players walked straight past it.
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