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WHOSO

5 letters

Definition of WHOSO

pronoun

whosoever, whatever person

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English hoe so, hoo so, hoo-so, from Old English hwā swā; equivalent to who + so.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

WHOSO in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 111
Its 2 boards, across 111 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
59
First board
82
Latest board
23
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 59, 18 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 82, 10 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 29 days.

First ever to find it

ehh

on Day 59, 18 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

WHOSO
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

WHOSO starts with W and ends with O. Sorted, its letters read HOOSW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.

Same letters, different word

2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start WHOSO

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found WHOSO?

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 59 - and most players walked straight past it.

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