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HOURLONG
Definition of HOURLONG
adjective
Which lasts an hour, or approximately so.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From hour + -long.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, HOUR · 9 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HOURLONG in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 12 boards so far. 10 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 45, 4 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 166, 2 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 79, 7 August 2026.
Built from these letters
HOURLONG starts with H and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read GHLNOORU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Also seen on Day 45
Could you have found HOURLONG?
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 45 - and most players walked straight past it.
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