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HOUND
Definition of HOUND
noun
A dog, particularly a breed with a good sense of smell developed for hunting other animals.
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Where it comes from
Inherited from Middle English hound, from Old English hund, from Proto-West Germanic *hund, from Proto-Germanic *hundaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ. Doublet of canine. Cognate with Dutch hond (“dog”), German Hund (“dog”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish hund (“dog”), Faroese and Icelandic hundur (“dog”). In 14th-century England, hound was the general word for all domestic canines, and dog referred to a subtype resembling the modern mastiff and bulldog (much as the distinction between Hund and Dogge in contemporary German). By the 16th century, dog had become the general word, and hound had begun to refer only to breeds used for hunting.
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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.
HOUND in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 36 boards so far. 107 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 1, 22 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 107, 4 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 6, 27 May 2026.
Built from these letters
HOUND starts with H and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DHNOU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start HOUND
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 1
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