Can you find the word dog

A REDDIT user has uploaded this very difficult word puzzle on the social sharing site but can you find the ‘dog’ among all the other letters?

Finding the three letter word in this search should be fairly simple but people online are seriously struggling — take a look and see if you can spot it.

The grid, which was uploaded by Jivandabeast yesterday, has under 100 letters but unfortunately for puzzle solvers all of the letters are either a ‘d’, ‘o’ or a ‘g’, making it especially tricky.

The snap of the word search has already received over 200 comments from confused users who are desperately trying to locate the animal name.

Before the answer is revealed, why not try your hand at this Christmas-themed brain teaser which has also left people online baffled.

The brain teaser was created by Focus Clinics, a London-based laser eye clinic and asks people to find a tiny red-breasted robin perched on one of the backs of Santa’s reindeer.

He’s sitting snug, staring straight at you whilst you’re ensuring this tricky test.

The red noses of the reindeer camouflage the robin’s red-breast perfectly and their patterned horns, red and yellow scarves and Santa hats draw your eye away from the Robin.

If you couldn’t spot the little bird, here’s the answer you’ve been waiting for…

Now for the answer to the dog word search:

If you struggled to find the word ‘dog’ within the tricky word search then fear not because we have the answer.

If you look at the 2nd letter ‘D’ on the 3rd line down, the word is spelt out diagonally down to the right.

Once the answer was revealed to Redditors many of them were kicking themselves, with one writing: «Damn I could not find it and now you’ve pointed it out, it seems so obvious».

While someone else said: «My god I’m an idiot, I searched that for a good ten minutes without remembering you could have them spelled diagonally».

You may be a Genius or an expert puzzle solver but do you have what it takes to solve this puzzle that is being dubbed as the ‘Hardest Word Search Ever’? All you need to do is find the word Dog in this Puzzle and that’s it. After solving this mind-blasting puzzle you can call yourself a Genius and believe us, only a few people have the required sharp brain to find the word Dog in this puzzle.

Although it looks like a simple puzzle and you may think that it’s just a matter of seconds when you find the word and prove us wrong, but that’s not the case, you need to put everything you have to solve this puzzle. This puzzle picture was uploaded by a user jivandabeast with a strong caption ‘Hardest Word Search Ever’ and it hasn’t taken long before this puzzle became viral on the Internet and started freaking people. You can find the word Horizontally, Vertically or Diagonally. Have a look at the puzzle.

Find the word Dog

We know that there are some intelligent souls that might say that they have found the word below or above the box but sorry to inform you that it’s not so easy. We are talking about the words in the box and you need to find the word Dog in the box only. Just give another try and maybe you will be able to solve this. You can take all the time to solve this puzzle before you scroll down to find the answer.

If you have come up to this point, it means you weren’t able to find the word and you are just like all of us. No worries, because most of the people aren’t able to solve this hard puzzle. You can check out the solution below where you can easily find the word Dog.

Solution

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Finding the three letter word in this search should be fairly simple but people online are seriously struggling – take a look and see if you can spot it.

The grid has under 100 letters but unfortunately for puzzle solvers all of the letters are either a ‘d’, ‘o’ or a ‘g’, making it especially tricky.

The snap of the word search has already received over 200 comments from confused users who are desperately trying to locate the animal name.

Now for the answer to the dog word search:

If you struggled to find the word ‘dog’ within the tricky word search then fear not because we have the answer.

If you look at the 2nd letter ‘D’ on the 3rd line down, the word is spelt out diagonally down to the right.

If you weren’t able to find it – here is the word

While someone else said: “My god I’m an idiot, I searched that for a good ten minutes without remembering you could have them spelled diagonally”.

English[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

• darg, dawg, dug (dialectal)
• doggie, doggy (childish)

Pronunciation[edit]

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /dɒɡ/
• («a dog»)
• (US) enPR: dôg, IPA^(key): /dɔɡ/
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /dɑɡ/
• Rhymes: -ɒɡ

Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle English dogge^[1] (whence also Scots dug (“dog”)), from Old English dogga, docga,^[2][3] of uncertain origin.

The original meaning seems to have been a common dog, as opposed to a well-bred one, or something like ‘cur’, and perhaps later came to be used for stocky dogs. Possibly a pet-form diminutive with suffix -ga (compare frocga (“frog”), *picga (“pig”)), appended to a base *dog-, *doc- of unclear origin and meaning. One possibility is Old English dox (“dark, swarthy”) (compare frocga from frox).^[4] Another proposal is that it derives from Proto-West Germanic *dugan (“to be suitable”), the origin of Old English dugan (“to be good, worthy, useful”), English dow, German taugen. The theory goes that it could have been an epithet for dogs, commonly used by children, meaning «good/useful animal.»^[5]. Another is that it is related to *docce (“stock, muscle”), from Proto-West Germanic *dokkā (“round mass, ball, muscle, doll”), whence English dock (“stumpy tail”).

In 14th-century England, hound (from Old English hund) was the general word for all domestic canines, and dog referred to a subtype resembling the modern mastiff and bulldog.^[6] By the 16th century, dog had become the general word, and hound had begun to refer only to breeds used for hunting.^[7] In the 16th century, the word dog was adopted by several continental European languages as their word for mastiff.^[8]

Noun[edit]

dog (plural dogs)

1. A mammal of the family Canidae:
   1. The species Canis familiaris (sometimes designated Canis lupus familiaris), domesticated for thousands of years and of highly variable appearance because of human breeding.

      • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVI, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

        The preposterous altruism too! […] Resist not evil. It is an insane immolation of self—as bad intrinsically as fakirs stabbing themselves or anchorites warping their spines in caves scarcely large enough for a fair-sized dog.

      • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess‎^[4]:

        When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him.  […] . The captive made no resistance and came not only quietly but in a series of eager little rushes like a timid dog on a choke chain.

      The dog barked all night long.

   2. Any member of the family Canidae, including domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, jackals, foxes, and their relatives (extant and extinct); canid.

      • 1989, John L. Gittleman, Carnivore Behavior, Ecology, and Evolution, page 561:

        This includes the development of hyena-like bone crushers (Osteoborus and Borophagus), a large bone-crushing hunting dog (Aelurodon), and another borophagine frugivorous dog (Carpocyon).

   3. (often attributive) A male dog, wolf, or fox, as opposed to a bitch or vixen.
      • 1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin 2013, page 149:

        Firstly, he was there to encourage and assist the hounds (a scratch pack – mostly dog-hounds drafted from fox-hound kennels because they were over-sized) […].

2. The meat of this animal, eaten as food:

   Did you know that in South Korea, they eat dog?

3. A person:
   1. (slang, derogatory) A dull, unattractive girl or woman.

      She’s a real dog.

   2. (slang) A man, guy, chap.

      You lucky dog!

   3. (derogatory) Someone who is cowardly, worthless, or morally reprehensible.

      Come back and fight, you dogs!

      You dirty dog.

      • 1599, Robert Greene, Alphonsus, King of Aragon (1599). Act 3.

        Blasphemous dog, I wonder that the earth / Doth cease from renting vnderneath thy feete, / To swallow vp those cankred corpes of thine.

      • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Kings 8:13, column 1:

        And Hazael ſaid, But what, is thy ſeruant a dogge, that he ſhould doe this great thing?

      • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

        [A]t last Mahomed’s stood straight up upon its vertebræ, and glared at me through its empty eyeholes, and cursed me with its grinning jaws, because I, a dog of a Christian, disturbed the last sleep of a true believer.

   4. (slang) A sexually aggressive man.

      • 2005, Jordan Houston, Darnell Carlton, Paul Beauregard, Premro Smith, Marlon Goodwin, David Brown, and Willie Hutchinson (lyrics), “Stay Fly”, in Most Known Unknown‎^[5], Sony BMG, performed by Three 6 Mafia (featuring Young Buck, 8 Ball, and MJG):

        DJ Paul is a dog; one you do not trust.

4. A mechanical device or support:
   1. Any of various mechanical devices for holding, gripping, or fastening something, particularly with a tooth-like projection.

      • 2009, ForestWorks, Chainsaw Operator’s Manual, page 41:

        Whenever possible, let the tree support the weight of the chainsaw. Pivot the saw, using the saw’s dogs (spikes) as a fulcrum.

   3. A click or pallet adapted to engage the teeth of a ratchet wheel, to restrain the back action.

      Synonyms: click, pallet, pawl, ratchet

   4. A metal support for logs in a fireplace.

      The dogs were too hot to touch.

      • 1902, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles

        In the great old-fashioned fireplace behind the high iron dogs a log-fire crackled and snapped.

5. (cartomancy) The eighteenth Lenormand card.
6. A hot dog: a frankfurter, wiener, or similar sausage; or a sandwich made from this.

   • 1994 July 21, Faye Fiore, “Congress relishes another franking privilege: Meat lobby puts on the dog with exclusive luncheon for lawmakers – experts on pork”, in Los Angeles Times‎^[6]:

     Congressmen gleefully wolfed down every imaginable version of the hot dog – smoked kielbasas, jumbo grillers, Big & Juicy’s, kosher dogs and spiced dogs […]

7. (poker slang) Underdog.
8. (slang, almost always in the plural) Foot.

   My dogs are barking! ― My feet hurt!

9. (Cockney rhyming slang) (from «dog and bone») Phone or mobile phone.

   My dog is dead.

   My mobile-phone battery has run out of charge and is no longer able to function.

10. One of the cones used to divide up a racetrack when training horses.
11. (informal) Something that performs poorly.
    • 1885, Robert H. Codrington, The Melanesian Languages (page 143)

      He gives his dog-Mota or dog-Fiji in exchange for Pigeon English.

    That modification turned his Dodge hemi into a dog.

    1. (film) A flop; a film that performs poorly at the box office.
       • 1969, Ski (volume 34, number 4, page 121)

         Blue was released, and as Redford had predicted, it was a dog.

       • 2012, Ronald L. Davis, Duke: The Life and Image of John Wayne

         «When The Alamo was coming out, the word of mouth on it was that it was a dog,» Chase said.

Synonyms[edit]

• (animal): taxonomic names: Canis familiaris, Canis domesticus, Canis familiarus domesticus, Canis canis, Canis aegyptius, Canis familiarus aegyptius, Canis melitaeus, Canis familiarus melitaeus, Canis molossus, Canis familiarus molossus, Canis saultor, Canis familiaris saultor
• (animal): domestic dog, hound, canine; see also Thesaurus:dog
• (male): stud, sire
• (man): bloke (British), chap (British), dude, fellow, guy, man; see also Thesaurus:man
• (morally reprehensible person): cad, bounder, blackguard, fool, hound, heel, scoundrel
• (mechanical device): click, detent, pawl
• (metal support for logs): andiron, fire dog, dogiron

Hypernyms[edit]

• (animal): canid

Hyponyms[edit]

• (animal):

Coordinate terms[edit]

• (male adult dog): bitch, pup, puppy

Derived terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

• Bislama: dog
• Sranan Tongo: dagu
• Tok Pisin: dok

Translations[edit]

Verb[edit]

dog (third-person singular simple present dogs, present participle dogging, simple past and past participle dogged)

1. (transitive) To pursue with the intent to catch.

   Synonyms: chase, chase after, go after, pursue, tag, tail, track, trail

2. (transitive) To follow in an annoying or harassing way.

   The woman cursed him so that trouble would dog his every step.

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:

     […] they were discovered in a very improper manner by the husband of the gypsy, who, from jealousy it seems, had kept a watchful eye over his wife, and had dogged her to the place, where he found her in the arms of her gallant.

   • 2012 January 1, Michael Riordan, “Tackling Infinity”, in American Scientist‎^[7], volume 100, number 1, page 86:

     Some of the most beautiful and thus appealing physical theories, including quantum electrodynamics and quantum gravity, have been dogged for decades by infinities that erupt when theorists try to prod their calculations into new domains. Getting rid of these nagging infinities has probably occupied far more effort than was spent in originating the theories.

   • 2012 May 9, Jonathan Wilson, “Europa League: Radamel Falcao’s Atlético Madrid rout Athletic Bilbao”, in the Guardian‎^[8]:

     But this is not an Athletic that ever looks comfortable at the back – a criticism that has often dogged Marcelo Bielsa’s sides.

   • 2021 June 21, Daisuke Wakabayashi, “Google Executives See Cracks in Their Company’s Success”, in The New York Times‎^[9], →ISSN:

     Yet Google, which was founded in 1998, is dogged by the perception that its best days are behind it.

3. (transitive, nautical) To fasten a hatch securely.

   It is very important to dog down these hatches.

4. (intransitive, emerging usage in Britain) To watch, or participate, in sexual activity in a public place.

   • 2012, The Onion Book of Known Knowledge, page 118:

     Lightning [is a] burst of charged particles that lights up the sky and allows onlookers to see who’s dogging in the bushes without using a flashlight.

   I admit that I like to dog at my local country park.

5. (intransitive, transitive) To intentionally restrict one’s productivity as employee; to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished.

   Synonyms: soldier, goldbrick

   A surprise inspection of the night shift found that some workers were dogging it.

6. (transitive) To criticize.
7. (transitive, military) To divide (a watch) with a comrade.
   • 1902, Winfield Scott Schley, Record of Proceedings of a Court of Inquiry

     A. We never stood 4 to 8 p.m. watches, sir. We dogged our watches.
     Q. I suppose that is 6 to 8 p.m., then; it is a little indistinct. I mean the second dog watch.

   • 2015, Tom Vetter, 30,000 Leagues Undersea

     Meanwhile, we dogged the watch sections so that both halves of the crew could fetch full sea bags of uniforms and gear […]

Derived terms[edit]

• all dogged up

Translations[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Clipping of dogshit.

Adjective[edit]

dog (not comparable)

1. (slang) Of inferior quality; dogshit.

See also[edit]

• 🐕
• Category:en:Canids
• bark
• canine
• cynomorphic
• cynomorphism
• flea bag

Further reading[edit]

References[edit]

Anagrams[edit]

• God, god

Afrikaans[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Dutch docht.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /dɔχ/

Verb[edit]

dog

1. Alternative form of dag (preterite of dink)

Bislama[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From English dog. Cognate with Tok Pisin dok.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /ˈdoɡ/
• Hyphenation: dog

Noun[edit]

dog

1. dog

References[edit]

• Terry Crowley (2004) Bislama Reference Grammar, Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi press, →ISBN, page 37

Chinese[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From English dog, which is translation of 狗 (gau2, “dog”), which is a homophone of 九 (gau2, “nine”), which is a euphemism of 鳩／鸠 (gau1, “fucking; stupid”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

dog

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang, leetspeak, euphemistic) Alternative form of 鳩／鸠 (gau1).

Adjective[edit]

dog

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang, leetspeak, euphemistic) Alternative form of 鳩／鸠 (gau1).

Derived terms[edit]

• on dog
• on dog dog

Etymology 2[edit]

From English dog.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

dog

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) The name of the Latin-script letter D.

See also[edit]

• boy

Danish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Danish dogh, which was borrowed from Middle Low German doch, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *þauh.

Adverb[edit]

dog

1. however

   Det er dog ikke sikkert, at de taler sandt.

   It is, however, not certain that they are telling the truth.

2. Conveying impressedness, emotional affectation, bewilderment.

   Hvor er den hund dog nuttet!

   How cute that dog is!

   Sikke dramatisk du dog kan fremstille sagen!

   How dramatically you can present the matter!

Conjunction[edit]

dog

1. though

Dutch[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English dog. Attested since the 16th century.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /dɔx/
• Hyphenation: dog
• Rhymes: -ɔx
• Homophone: doch

Noun[edit]

dog m (plural doggen, diminutive dogje n)

1. A large dog, especially one of certain breeds.

Derived terms[edit]

• Deense dog

Kriol[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From English dog.

Noun[edit]

dog

1. dog

Mbabaram[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From *dwog(a), from *udwoga, from *gudwaga, from Proto-Pama-Nyungan *gudaga. Related to Dyirbal guda, Yidiny gudaga. False cognate of English dog.^[1][2]

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /dɔɡ/^[2]

Noun[edit]

dog

1. dog

References[edit]

Navajo[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Onomatopoeic.

Interjection[edit]

dog

1. thump, dub (sound of a heartbeat; thumping sound of a person walking on the roof of a house as heard by someone in the house)

Synonyms[edit]

• tsʼidog

Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Adverb[edit]

dog

1. however

Conjunction[edit]

dog

1. though

Polish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English dog, from Middle English dogge, from Old English dogga, docga.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /dɔk/
• Rhymes: -ɔk
• Syllabification: dog
• Homophone: dok

Noun[edit]

dog m anim

1. dogo-type dog

Declension[edit]

Further reading[edit]

• dog in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• dog in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

dog m (plural dogs)

1. Clipping of hot dog.

Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From French dogue, from English dog.

Noun[edit]

dog m (plural dogi)

1. mastiff

Declension[edit]

Swedish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /duːɡ/

Verb[edit]

dog

1. past tense of dö.

Anagrams[edit]

• god

Torres Strait Creole[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From English dog.

Noun[edit]

dog

1. dog

Volapük[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From English dog.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): [doɡ]

Noun[edit]

dog (nominative plural dogs)

1. (male or female) dog

Declension[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

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• doeg
• toradoeg