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EFFORTS
Definition of EFFORTS
noun
plural of effort
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Word DNA
EFFORTS inherits its ancestry from its root, EFFORT.
Line of descent
- Latin
- Old French
- Middle French
- English
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
33.2%
of traced words share this origin (10,073)
branch · 33.2% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, EFFORT · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Czech, Polish, Proto-Slavic, Russian.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
EFFORTS 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 9 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
EFFORTS starts with E and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EFFORST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. F appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start EFFORT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found EFFORTS?
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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