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HUNTER
Definition of HUNTER
noun
One who hunts game for sport or for food; a huntsman or huntswoman.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English huntere, hunter, equivalent to hunt + -er. Compare Old English hunta (“hunter”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Middle English
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
4th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
7.6%
of traced words share this origin (2,235)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, HUNT · 4 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Old English.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HUNTER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 30 boards so far. 112 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 145, 12 October 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
HUNTER starts with H and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read EHNRTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found HUNTER?
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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