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HUMOUR

/ˈhjuː.mə(ɹ)/6 letters

Definition of HUMOUR

noun

The quality of being amusing, comical, funny.

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Where it comes from

From Middle English humour, from Old French humor, humour, from Latin hūmor, correctly ūmor (“liquid”), from hūmeō, correctly ūmeō (“to be moist”). The h in these words, which was silent in late Classical Latin, is folk etymological, due to the erroneous association with the word humus (“soil”). The shift in meaning "liquid" > "mood" is attributed to the classical system of physiology, where human behaviour is regulated by four bodily humours (fluids). The sense "mood" gave rise to the verb sense "to give in to someone's mood or whim" and, by narrowing of meaning, the sense "wit".

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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

HUMOUR in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 13 boards so far. 13 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 102
Its 13 boards, across 102 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
13
Boards found on
25
First board
97
Latest board
16
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 25, 14 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 97, 25 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.

First found by a player on Day 25, 14 June 2026.

Built from these letters

HUMOUR
6
Letters
3
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

HUMOUR starts with H and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read HMORUU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. U appears more than once.

Words that start HUMOUR

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

HUMOURSHUMOUREDHUMOURFULHUMOURINGHUMOURLESSHUMOURSOME

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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 25 - and most players walked straight past it.

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