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HUMDINGER
Definition of HUMDINGER
noun
Something that is particularly outstanding, unusual, or exceptional.
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Other senses
HUMDINGER carries 2 further meanings.
noun
One that is extraordinary or remarkable.
“a humdinger of a blizzard.”
noun
someone of remarkable excellence
Where it comes from
US origin, perhaps a blend of hummer (“something that moves fast”) + dinger (“something outstanding”). First attested in a newspaper article in the Daily Enterprise of June 4, 1883, at Livingston, Montana.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, HUMDINGER · 1 relative 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.
HUMDINGER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 54 boards so far. 135 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
HUMDINGER starts with H and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read DEGHIMNRU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of HUMDINGER. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Also seen on Day 8
Could you have found HUMDINGER?
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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.
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