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HUSBAND
Definition of HUSBAND
noun
A man in a marriage or marital relationship, especially in relation to his spouse.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Inherited from Middle English husbonde, from Old English hūsbonda, from hūs + bonda. Calque of Old Norse húsbóndi. By surface analysis, house + bond.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HUSBAND in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 18 boards so far. 34 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 6, 27 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 96, 24 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 7, 28 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HUSBAND starts with H and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ABDHNSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start HUSBAN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found HUSBAND?
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 6 - and most players walked straight past it.
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