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HOUSEHOLD
Definition of HOUSEHOLD
noun
All the persons who live in a given house or other home; a family including attendants, servants etc.; a domestic or family establishment.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English houshold. By surface analysis, house + hold. Cognate with Scots houshald, housald, housell, howsell (“household”), Dutch huishouden (“household”) (earlier huishoud), German Low German Huushollen (“household”) (Middle Low German hūsholt), German Haushalt (“household”), Swedish hushåll (“household, family”), Norwegian husholdning (“household”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Middle English
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
4th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
6.1%
of traced words share this origin (4,779)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, HOUSEHOLD · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Dutch, Middle Low German, Norwegian, Scots, Swedish.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HOUSEHOLD in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 146, 13 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 146, 13 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HOUSEHOLD starts with H and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DEHHLOOSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. H and O appear more than once.
Words that start HOUSEH
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found HOUSEHOLD?
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 146 - and most players walked straight past it.
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