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HOSTIE

/ˈhəʊsti/6 letters

Definition of HOSTIE

noun

the consecrated bread or wafer of the Eucharist, host.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Middle French hostie, from Latin hostia.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

HOSTIE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 109
Its 2 boards, across 109 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
72
First board
85
Latest board
13
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 85, 13 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 24 days.

First ever to find it

ma15man

on Day 85, 13 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

HOSTIE
6
Letters
3
Vowels
3
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

HOSTIE starts with H and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EHIOST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start HOSTIE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

HOSTIES

Could you have found HOSTIE?

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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