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WHELP
Definition of WHELP
noun
A young offspring of a various carnivores (canid, ursid, felid, pinniped), especially of a dog or a wolf, the young of a bear or similar mammal (lion, tiger, seal); a pup, wolf cub.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English whelp, from Old English hwelp, from Proto-West Germanic *hwelp, from Proto-Germanic *hwelpaz (compare Dutch welp, German Welpe, Welfe, Old Norse hvelpr, Norwegian Nynorsk kvelp, Danish hvalp), from pre-Germanic *kʷelbos, of uncertain origin.
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
WHELP in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 52 boards so far. 199 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 10, 30 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 10, 30 May 2026.
Built from these letters
WHELP starts with W and ends with P. Sorted, its letters read EHLPW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start WHELP
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 10
Could you have found WHELP?
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 10 - and most players walked straight past it.
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