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MANKINDS
Definition of MANKINDS
Wiktionary has no entry for MANKINDS itself. This is its base word, MANKIND.
noun
The human race in its entirety.
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Where it comes from
The origin recorded for MANKIND.
From Middle English mankynde, alteration (due to kynde = “kind, nature, sort”) of earlier mankyn, from Old English mancynn. Equivalent to man + kin, and/or man + -kind. Cognate with Scots mankind, Middle High German mankünne, Danish mandkøn, Icelandic mannkyn (“mankind”). See also mankin.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Old English
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.7%
of traced words share this origin (3,167)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Its etymology also names Danish, German, Icelandic, Scots.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
MANKINDS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 172, 8 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
Built from these letters
MANKINDS starts with M and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ADIKMNNS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N appears more than once.
Words that start MANKIN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found MANKINDS?
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 172 - and most players walked straight past it.
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