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WHELPING
Definition of WHELPING
verb
present participle and gerund 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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Another sense
WHELPING carries a second meaning.
verb
Present participle of whelp.
Word DNA
WHELPING inherits its ancestry from its root, WHELP.
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
3.3%
of traced words share this origin (980)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, WHELP · 3 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Old Norse.
WHELPING in a sentence
“Grandma would regularly walk up to the whelping box, survey the scene, and climb in whichever side of the box had the hungriest looking pups.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
WHELPING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 55 boards so far. 214 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 30, 19 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 144, 11 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 30, 19 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
WHELPING starts with W and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read EGHILNPW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 30
Could you have found WHELPING?
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 30 - and most players walked straight past it.
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