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HOUR
Definition of HOUR
noun
A unit of time of one twenty-fourth of a day (sixty minutes).
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Where it comes from
From Middle English houre, hour, oure, from Old French houre, from Latin hōra (“hour”), from Ancient Greek ὥρα (hṓra, “any time or period, whether of the year, month, or day”), from Proto-Indo-European *yóh₁r̥ (“year, season”). Akin to Old English ġēar (“year”). Doublet of hora and year. Compare horary. Partly displaced native Old English tīd (“time, hour”), whence Modern English tide.
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Word DNA
Line of descent
5 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.2%
of traced words share this origin (11,575)
How it is built
Same root, HOUR · 9 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Old English.
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HOUR in OUTLIER
It has fitted 2 boards so far. 25 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 118, 15 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 153, 20 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.
First found by a player on Day 10, 30 May 2026.
Built from these letters
HOUR starts with H and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read HORU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start HOUR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found HOUR?
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 118 - and most players walked straight past it.
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