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HOUSEBOY
Definition of HOUSEBOY
noun
A young male domestic servant, especially in a British colony in former times.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From house + boy (“young male; (historical or offensive) non-white male servant regardless of age”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, HOUSEBOY · 1 relative 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.
HOUSEBOY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 15 boards so far. 21 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 78, 6 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 162, 29 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 78, 6 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HOUSEBOY starts with H and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read BEHOOSUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Words that start HOUSEB
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found HOUSEBOY?
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 78 - and most players walked straight past it.
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