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HOSTA
Definition of HOSTA
noun
Any of several herbaceous Asiatic plants of the genus Hosta.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from translingual Hosta f, from Serbo-Croatian Host + translingual -a f. Named after Nicolaus Thomas Host, Croatian-Austrian botanist.
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.
HOSTA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 11 boards so far. 25 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 99, 27 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 72, 31 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HOSTA starts with H and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AHOST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start HOSTA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found HOSTA?
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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.
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