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HOUSESIT
Definition of HOUSESIT
verb
Alternative form of house-sit.
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Word DNA
HOUSESIT inherits its ancestry from its root, HOUSE.
Line of descent
- Sanskrit
- Ancient Greek
- Latin
- Welsh
- Icelandic
- Swedish
- Norwegian
- Danish
- Yiddish
- Dutch
- Scots
- Anglo-Norman
- Proto-Indo-European
- Proto-Germanic
- Old English
- Middle English
- English
16 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
15th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.9%
of traced words share this origin (777)
branch · 1.5% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, HOUSE · 12 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.
HOUSESIT 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 21 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
HOUSESIT starts with H and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read EHIOSSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start HOUSES
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found HOUSESIT?
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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