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YELLOWHAMMER
Definition of YELLOWHAMMER
noun
A passerine bird, Emberiza citrinella, of western Eurasia, which is mainly yellow in colour.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
An alteration (influenced by hammer) of the earlier yelambre, yelamber, from Middle English *yelwambre, from yelwe (“yellow”) + *ambre (“yellowhammer”), from Old English amore, related to Old High German amaro (“yellowhammer”) (see modern German Ammer).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Old English
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.7%
of traced words share this origin (3,152)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, YELLOWHAMMER · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names German.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
YELLOWHAMMER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 167, 3 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First ever to find it
observedgravityPATRONContributor
on Day 167, 3 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
YELLOWHAMMER starts with Y and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read AEEHLLMMORWY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E, L and M appear more than once, including a double letter.
Could you have found YELLOWHAMMER?
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 167 - and most players walked straight past it.
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