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OFFICE
Definition of OFFICE
noun
A ceremonial duty or service, particularly: The authorized form of ceremonial worship of a church. Any special liturgy, as the Office for the Dead or of the Virgin. A daily service without the eucharist. The daily service of the breviary, the liturgy for each canonical hour, including psalms, collects, and lessons.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English office, from Old French office, from Latin officium (“personal, official, or moral duty; official position; function; ceremony, esp. last rites”), contracted from opificium (“construction: the act of building or the thing built”), from opifex (“doer of work, craftsman”) + -ium (“-y”, forming actions), from op- (“work”) + -i- (connective) + -fex (combining form of faciō (“to do, to make”)). In the religious sense, Displaced native Old English hād. The computing sense is a genericization of various proprietary program suites, such as Microsoft Office.
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Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.7%
of traced words share this origin (3,005)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, OFFICE · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
OFFICE in OUTLIER
It has fitted 6 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 117, 14 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 159, 26 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 134, 1 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
OFFICE starts with O and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read CEFFIO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. F appears more than once, including a double letter.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start OFFICE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found OFFICE?
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