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HYDRA
Definition of HYDRA
noun
A dragon-like creature with many heads and the ability to regrow them when maimed.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
After the Hydra, from Greek mythology, which grew two new heads every time one of its heads was cut off. The biology sense alludes to the budding method of asexual reproduction that the hydra practices, similar to growing new heads. The figurative sense refers to how the creature could not be killed by a swift, decisive solution (in contrast to a Gordian knot).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, HYDRA · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HYDRA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 58 boards so far. 147 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 24, 13 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 161, 28 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 24, 13 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HYDRA starts with H and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read ADHRY - 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 HYDRA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 24
Could you have found HYDRA?
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 24 - and most players walked straight past it.
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