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HOUSELING
Definition of HOUSELING
noun
The act of administering the eucharist.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English houselyng, housling, from Old English hūslung (“administration of the sacrament”), from Old English hūslian (“to administer the sacrament”), equivalent to housel + -ing.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Old English
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.7%
of traced words share this origin (2,853)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, HOUSEL · 4 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.
HOUSELING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 145, 12 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.
First found by a player on Day 101, 29 August 2026.
Built from these letters
HOUSELING starts with H and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read EGHILNOSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start HOUSEL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found HOUSELING?
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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.
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