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HWAN
Definition of HWAN
noun
The monetary unit of South Korea from February 15, 1953 to June 9, 1962.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Korean 환(圜) (hwan).
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.
HWAN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 119, 16 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 119, 16 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HWAN starts with H and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AHNW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found HWAN?
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 119 - and most players walked straight past it.
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