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LONGHOUSES
Definition of LONGHOUSES
noun
plural of longhouse
noun
A long communal housing of the Iroquois and some other American Indians, the Malaysians, the Indonesians, the Vikings, and many other peoples.
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Word DNA
LONGHOUSES inherits its ancestry from its root, LONGHOUSE.
Line of descent
- French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
5th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
5.3%
of traced words share this origin (4,548)
branch · 12.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, LONGHOUSE · 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.
LONGHOUSES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 124, 21 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 54 days.
Built from these letters
LONGHOUSES starts with L and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EGHLNOOSSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O and S appear more than once.
Words that start LONGHO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found LONGHOUSES?
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 124 - and most players walked straight past it.
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