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HURTS

/hɜːts/5 letters

Definition of HURTS

verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of hurt

HURT

verb

To cause (a person or animal) physical pain and/or injury.

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Tier
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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.

HURTS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 124
Its one board, across 124 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
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Boards found on
123
First board
1
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 123, 20 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

dippydoodoggy

on Day 123, 20 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

HURTS
5
Letters
1
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Same letters, different word

2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Could you have found HURTS?

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 123 - and most players walked straight past it.

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