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BERTHINGS
Definition of BERTHINGS
noun
plural of berthing
BERTH · via berthing
noun
Chiefly in wide berth: a sufficient space in the water for a ship or other vessel to lie at anchor or manoeuvre without getting in the way of other vessels, or colliding into rocks or the shore. A place for a vessel to lie at anchor or to moor. A room in a vessel in which the officers or company mess (“eat together”) and reside; also, a room or other place in a vessel for storage. A place on a vessel to sleep, especially a bed on the side of a cabin. A job or position on a vessel.
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Word DNA
BERTHINGS inherits its ancestry from its root, BERTH.
Line of descent
- Middle English
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
4th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
6.2%
of traced words share this origin (5,325)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, BERTH · 5 relatives 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.
BERTHINGS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 119, 16 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 158, 25 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 20 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 119, 16 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BERTHINGS starts with B and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read BEGHINRST - 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.
Could you have found BERTHINGS?
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 119 - and most players walked straight past it.
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