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SANDHOG
Definition of SANDHOG
noun
A person employed to dig tunnels, or to work underground or under water.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From sand + hog, perhaps alluding to a hog (“animal of the Suidae family, especially a boar, pig, or warthog”) digging in sand.
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.
SANDHOG in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 89, 17 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 94, 22 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 89, 17 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SANDHOG starts with S and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read ADGHNOS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start SANDHO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SANDHOG?
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 89 - and most players walked straight past it.
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