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GIRLHOODS

9 letters

Definition of GIRLHOODS

noun

plural of girlhood

GIRLHOOD

noun

The state or condition of being a girl.

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Word DNA

GIRLHOODS inherits its ancestry from its root, GIRL.

Line of descent

  1. German
  2. Old English
  3. Middle English
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

German

Deepest traced root

8th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

3.3%

of traced words share this origin (2,743)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound

Same root, GIRL · 12 relatives in the game

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

GIRLHOODS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 15 boards so far. 16 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 166
Its 15 boards, across 166 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
15
Boards found on
43
First board
152
Latest board
22
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 43, 2 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 152, 19 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 14 days.

First found by a player on Day 43, 2 July 2026.

Built from these letters

GIRLHOODS
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
8
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

GIRLHOODS starts with G and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read DGHILOORS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once, including a double letter.

Words that start GIRLHO

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found GIRLHOODS?

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 43 - and most players walked straight past it.

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