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HYPHIES
Definition of HYPHIES
Wiktionary has no entry for HYPHIES itself. This is its base word, HYPHY.
adjective
Rambunctious, loud, crazy, dangerous, irrational, and outrageous in behavior.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
The origin recorded for HYPHY.
Probably an alteration of hype or hyper. American rapper Keak da Sneak is sometimes credited as coining the word in the 1990s, but no evidence exists to support this and the term is first attested in 2002.
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.
HYPHIES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 76, 4 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 46 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 76, 4 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HYPHIES starts with H and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EHHIPSY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. H appears more than once.
Could you have found HYPHIES?
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 76 - and most players walked straight past it.
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