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HOYLES
About HOYLES
HOYLES is a valid 6-letter word in OUTLIER, and one of the few with no English entry in Wiktionary - the dictionary a word game accepts is wider than the one an encyclopaedia keeps.
No definition is on file, so none is guessed at here.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HOYLES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 82, 10 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 38 days.
First found by a player on Day 76, 4 August 2026.
Built from these letters
HOYLES starts with H and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EHLOSY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found HOYLES?
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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