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HOYDENING
Definition of HOYDENING
verb
present participle and gerund of hoyden
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Word DNA
HOYDENING inherits its ancestry from its root, HOYDEN.
Line of descent
- Middle Dutch
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
26th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.4%
of traced words share this origin (110)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, HOYDEN · 3 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.
HOYDENING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 19 days.
Built from these letters
HOYDENING starts with H and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read DEGHINNOY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N appears more than once.
Words that start HOYDEN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found HOYDENING?
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 132 - and most players walked straight past it.
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