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HUMOR

/hjuː.mə(ɹ)/5 letters

Definition of HUMOR

noun

US spelling of humour.

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

HUMOR in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 22 boards so far. 33 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 120
Its 22 boards, across 120 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
22
Boards found on
2
First board
106
Latest board
25
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 2, 23 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 106, 3 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 14 days.

First ever to find it

tammy

on Day 6, 27 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

HUMOR
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

HUMOR starts with H and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read HMORU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start HUMOR

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found HUMOR?

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 2 - and most players walked straight past it.

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