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HOUNDER

7 letters

Definition of HOUNDER

noun

One who hounds or harasses somebody.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From hound + -er.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

HOUNDER in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 16 boards so far. 26 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 99
Its 16 boards, across 99 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
16
Boards found on
11
First board
95
Latest board
28
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 11, 31 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 95, 23 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.

First found by a player on Day 11, 31 May 2026.

Built from these letters

HOUNDER
7
Letters
3
Vowels
4
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start HOUNDE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

HOUNDEDHOUNDERS

Could you have found HOUNDER?

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 11 - and most players walked straight past it.

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