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HYSON
Definition of HYSON
noun
A Chinese green tea.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Chinese 熙春.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Chinese
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
32nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.2%
of traced words share this origin (59)
branch · 0.4% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HYSON in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 130, 27 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 130, 27 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HYSON starts with H and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read HNOSY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start HYSON
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found HYSON?
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 130 - and most players walked straight past it.
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