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PROGENY
Definition of PROGENY
noun
Offspring or descendants considered as a group.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English progenie, from Old French progenie, from Latin prōgeniēs, from prōgignō (“beget”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,643)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PROGENY · 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.
PROGENY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 51 boards so far. 205 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 11, 31 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 144, 11 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 11, 31 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PROGENY starts with P and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read EGNOPRY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
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 PROGEN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 11
Could you have found PROGENY?
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 11 - and most players walked straight past it.
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