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TRANSHUMANCE
Definition of TRANSHUMANCE
noun
The seasonal movement of grazing livestock (especially cattle, sheep, or goats) to new pastures which may be quite distant; alpine and nonalpine versions of such movement exist.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French transhumance, ultimately from Latin trāns (“across, beyond”) + humus (“ground”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (24,343)
branch · 30.7% 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.
TRANSHUMANCE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 145, 12 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 16 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 145, 12 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
TRANSHUMANCE starts with T and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AACEHMNNRSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and N appear more than once.
Words that start TRANSHUM
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found TRANSHUMANCE?
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 145 - and most players walked straight past it.
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