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ELDERSHIP

/ˈɛldɚʃɪp/9 letters

Definition of ELDERSHIP

noun

The position of being elder or senior; seniority, precedence of birth, primogeniture.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From elder + -ship. The Lithuanian sense is a calque of Lithuanian seniūnija.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

ELDERSHIP in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 109
Its 2 boards, across 109 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
68
First board
86
Latest board
18
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 68, 27 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 86, 14 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 23 days.

First ever to find it

teg

on Day 68, 27 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

ELDERSHIP
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
8
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

ELDERSHIP starts with E and ends with P. Sorted, its letters read DEEHILPRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.

Words that start ELDERS

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

ELDERSELDERSHIPS

Could you have found ELDERSHIP?

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 68 - and most players walked straight past it.

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