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SPAVINED
Definition of SPAVINED
adjective
Of a horse: having spavin (“a disease of horses caused by a bony swelling which develops in a leg due to inflammation”).
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Other senses
SPAVINED carries 4 further meanings.
adjective
Afflicted with spavin.
“a spavined horse.”
adjective
Marked by damage, deterioration, or ruin.
“a junkyard of spavined cars.”
Affected with spavin; hence, figuratively, halting; crippled; very lame or limping.
adjective
Affected with spavin.
Where it comes from
From Late Middle English spaueyned, from spavein, spaveine (“swelling on horse’s leg causing lameness; disease causing lameness in horses”) + -ed (suffix forming adjectives; and the past tense and past participle forms of weak verbs). By surface analysis, spavin + -ed (suffix forming possessional adjectives from nouns, denoting having the objects represented by the nouns; and forming past tenses of regular verbs).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Middle English
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
4th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
7.6%
of traced words share this origin (2,258)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, SPAVIN · 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.
SPAVINED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 48 boards so far. 106 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 20, 9 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 20, 9 June 2026.
Built from these letters
SPAVINED starts with S and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ADEINPSV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 20
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