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HYPERBOLE
Definition of HYPERBOLE
noun
Deliberate overstatement, particularly extreme overstatement.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English iperbole, yperbole, from Latin hyperbolē, from Ancient Greek ὑπερβολή (huperbolḗ, “excess, exaggeration”), from ὑπέρ (hupér, “above”) + βάλλω (bállō, “to throw”, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH-). Doublet of hyperbola.
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.
HYPERBOLE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 29 boards so far. 95 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 18, 7 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 100, 28 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 18, 7 June 2026.
Built from these letters
HYPERBOLE starts with H and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read BEEHLOPRY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Words that start HYPERB
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 18
Could you have found HYPERBOLE?
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 18 - and most players walked straight past it.
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