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HUNTS
Definition of HUNTS
noun
plural of hunt
verb
To find or search for an animal in the wild with the intention of killing the animal for its meat or for sport.
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Word DNA
HUNTS inherits its ancestry from its root, HUNT.
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.2%
of traced words share this origin (11,769)
How it is built
Same root, HUNT · 13 relatives in the game
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HUNTS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 39, 28 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 97, 25 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 70 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 39, 28 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HUNTS starts with H and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read HNSTU - 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 HUNTS
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 39
Could you have found HUNTS?
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 39 - and most players walked straight past it.
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