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INKHORNS

8 letters

Definition of INKHORNS

noun

plural of inkhorn

INKHORN

noun

A small portable container, often made of horn, used to carry ink.

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Word DNA

INKHORNS inherits its ancestry from its root, INKHORN.

Line of descent

  1. Middle English
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Middle English

Deepest traced root

4th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

6.2%

of traced words share this origin (5,109)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound

Same root, INKHORN · 1 relative in the game

Its etymology also names Old English.

Every Middle English word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

INKHORNS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 166
Its one board, across 166 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
139
First board
27
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 139, 6 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 27 days.

First found by a player on Day 139, 6 October 2026.

Built from these letters

INKHORNS
8
Letters
2
Vowels
6
Consonants
7
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

INKHORNS starts with I and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read HIKNNORS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N appears more than once.

Words that start INKHOR

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found INKHORNS?

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 139 - and most players walked straight past it.

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