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HUMID
Definition of HUMID
adjective
Containing perceptible moisture (usually describing air or atmosphere); damp; moist; somewhat wet or watery.
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Where it comes from
Borrowed from Old French humide, from Latin humidus (“moist”). Via Proto-Indo-European *wegʷ- (“wet”) related to English weaky.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HUMID in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 23 boards so far. 43 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 106, 3 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
HUMID starts with H and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DHIMU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start HUMID
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found HUMID?
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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.
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