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OFFSPRING
Definition of OFFSPRING
noun
A person's daughter or son; a person's child.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English ofspring, from Old English ofspring (“offspring, descendants, posterity”), equivalent to off- + spring. Compare Icelandic afspringur (“offspring”). More at off, spring.
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 (3,168)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Its etymology also names Icelandic.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
OFFSPRING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 134, 1 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 43 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 132, 29 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
OFFSPRING starts with O and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read FFGINOPRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. F appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start OFFSPR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found OFFSPRING?
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 132 - and most players walked straight past it.
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