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HOSTELINGS
Definition of HOSTELINGS
Wiktionary has no entry for HOSTELINGS itself. This is its base word, 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
The origin recorded for HOSTEL.
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.
HOSTELINGS 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
HOSTELINGS starts with H and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EGHILNOSST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S appears more than once.
Words that start HOSTEL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found HOSTELINGS?
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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