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HOSTEL
Definition of HOSTEL
noun
An overnight lodging place for travelers, with dormitory accommodation and shared facilities, especially a youth hostel.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English hostel, from Old French hostel, ostel, from Late Latin hospitale (“hospice”), from Classical Latin hospitalis (“hospitable”) itself from hospes (“host”) + -alis (“-al”). Doublet of hotel and hospital. Not in use from late 17th c. (in the usual sense from mid 16th c.) to 1808, when it was revived by Walter Scott in his poem Marmion (see the quotation).
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HOSTEL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 15 boards so far. 30 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 99, 27 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
HOSTEL starts with H and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read EHLOST - 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 HOSTEL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 8
Could you have found HOSTEL?
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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.
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