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HOSTILITY
Definition of HOSTILITY
noun
The state of being hostile.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English hostilitie, hostilite, from Old French hostilité, from Latin hostīlitās. By surface analysis, hostile + -ity.
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.
HOSTILITY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 106, 3 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.
First found by a player on Day 106, 3 September 2026.
Built from these letters
HOSTILITY starts with H and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read HIILOSTTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T and I appear more than once.
Words that start HOSTIL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found HOSTILITY?
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 106 - and most players walked straight past it.
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