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DUKESHIP
Definition of DUKESHIP
noun
The quality or condition of being a duke.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From duke + -ship. Doublet of dogeship.
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.
DUKESHIP in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 94, 22 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 109, 6 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 94, 22 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
DUKESHIP starts with D and ends with P. Sorted, its letters read DEHIKPSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start DUKESH
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found DUKESHIP?
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 94 - and most players walked straight past it.
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