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HOUSEBREAK
Definition of HOUSEBREAK
verb
To train an animal to avoid urinating or defecating in the house, except within a litterbox, toilet, or other receptacle.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From house + break, back-formed from housebroken in the animal-training sense.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, HOUSEBREAK · 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.
HOUSEBREAK in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 51, 10 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 51, 10 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HOUSEBREAK starts with H and ends with K. Sorted, its letters read ABEEHKORSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Words that start HOUSEB
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 51
Could you have found HOUSEBREAK?
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 51 - and most players walked straight past it.
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