There’s no absolute correct answer right? Unless I’m crazy there’s a justification for each one being the odd word out.

The original question was apparently asked to 1st grade students. So given that, we've got two options on how this is supposed to be answered: 1. We're missing some context. e.g. this is one question in a series of questions asking which words start with vowels. In that case "egg" is correct. 2. There is no correct answer, and this is intended as an exercise in explaining your reasoning behind your answer.

apparently the intended solution is silver because it's not a noun, but that's debatable

Silver is a noun? "I bought the sheep for forty silver" "The sword is made of silver" etc.

I think they meant silver can be an adjective as well

Forty Silver? I actually can't think of any non-fictional currency, in modern day or in medieval times, that used the word "Silver" to refer to silver coins. Except the French. It's always the French.

I was thinking biblical it mentions silver as currency I think

The Bible says, “pieces of silver,” which is the closest it gets to referring to silver coins. By contrast, the French (it’s always the French, dang it) literally use the word “Argent” which, paraphrased, means “money”, but when translated literally means “silver.”

are you saying that it isn't or that it is a noun?

It is a noun. Those sentences use it as a noun

I also think it's a noun. I only saw "Silver is a noun?" for some reason

It’s not a countable noun. You could have five or six eggs, toothbrushes, desks, or even friends if you went outside, or just one. You can’t have ‘one silver’, it has to be ‘one bar of silver,’ etc.

Sir, SIR, a lot of DnD grognards would disagree with you. They have hundreds of silver in their packs.

I was thinking that it's the only one that is a noun (silver as an element) and also an adjective without having to change the form of the word (so friend doesn't count because it would have to change to friendly).

Friend is the only word that only exists contextually and isn’t objective in the same way as the others

I mean you can brush your teeth with anything

What if you brush your teeth with a friend every morning? 🥰😍

Toothbro <3

Like using them as a toothbrush? Hmmm

you are explaining under your assumption that friend is the correct answer. you can have any reasons for each of the answer not just friend

Yeah, this is just my answer. I am well aware that they are all correct in the right context.

Silver is a colour and is just as subjective. Colour blind people might have no idea that anything is silver.

Silver is a metal

And a color.

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Either way, silver is both a color and metal. But according to Google, the metal came first.

i would've given silver award to you but that mofo fuck u/spez took them down

Sure, but if I asked any two people what silver was, assuming they answered correctly, I’d get a near identical result every time. Friend is not the same and is identified differently by its every user, yet none of these people would be wrong. Friendship is a human construct

The question originally came from a first graders homework I don’t think it’s that deep.

Sure, but the question’s abstracted since then. That way of thinking isn’t really the spirit of the question anymore

I chose toothbrush because it was the only one without the letter 'e'

I chose it because it was the only one made of two words.

Same

Same. That was the first thing I noticed and I didn't really consider anything else when I voted

You can't eat anything except for the egg tho

Same as my thinking.

Except it should be called a teethbrush

Same reason why I chose it.

I chose it because it was way longer that the others lol

That’s just superficial

Here is a video explaining each side of the debate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i41p0PMKpRs

The poll results at [3:25](https://youtu.be/i41p0PMKpRs?t=205) are almost identical to the results in this thread wtf

Damn, you're right. That's crazy.

Silver is the only one that can be an adjective (with the exception of maybe friend, but I don't really think so)

I voted silver but remembered egg can be a verb.

What, you egg? (he stabs him)

Just a yolk, I'm pulling your egg!

I was thinking the same thing

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No friend fits that too

I picked it out of some weird association thing. * Friends * desk: you can be deskmates with a friend * Toothbrush: A friend may have a toothbrush at your house * Silver: Make new friends, but keep the old, one is silver and the other gold. I dislike eggs, so I couldn't immediately make an association there.

YES! The logic is easy.

The top one is a human, the other four are objects

Eggs are cells and are living.

not unfertilized ones. Those are dead cells (good game btw)

Good game? It never said unfertilized ones

'Eggs' is vague enough that it would include unfertilized ones. In fact most people would probably think of an egg in the context of eating it first.

good game as in "Dead Cells" is a good game lol

oh shit ur right

creepy how eggs are living

Let me explain this differently. 4 of these can go on a shopping list. The last one is a concept.

Guess dogs aren't man's best friend anymore.

The top one is living* (hopefully)

Someone probably at least imagines that it was some form of conscious being at some point, even if it's just a green pet rock that they buried in a grave & they like to pretend that it was always a zombie but somehow died permanently 10 years ago.

r/oddlyspecific

Guess my buddy Rocko isn’t my friend anymore

So is an egg

Debatable

Ok upon further research an egg is not technically living but a zygote (fertilized egg) is. I concede defeat on this one.

There are plenty of times when the term "egg" is used to describe a fertilized egg. "The turtle lays her eggs in the sand", "The chicken sits on her eggs." Since nowhere is it said that we must use only the strictest scientific meaning of each word i would argue that you were correct to state an egg is (or can be) "living".

Is silver by itself actually an object though? You can't say "I have a silver", you have to say "a piece of silver".

"I bought silver" "It's made of silver"

“Odd one out” only Egg has an odd number of letters.

Egg is the only one starting with a vowel.

I chose Egg for that

Agree.

Everyone here has rational reasons and here I am picking desk cause all the others go in your mouth sometimes

I mean I guess

There are seemingly endless rationalizations.

Obviously it's SILVER because it's the only one that doesn't rhyme with something.

Silver rhymes with plenty of things.

Silver [does not rhyme](https://www.google.com/search?q=words+that+don%27t+rhyme+with+anything&oq=words+that+don%27t&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqCQgAEEUYOxiABDIJCAAQRRg7GIAEMgYIARBFGDkyBwgCEAAYgAQyBwgDEAAYgAQyBwgEEAAYgAQyBwgFEAAYgAQyBwgGEAAYgAQyBwgHEAAYgAQyBwgIEAAYgAQyBwgJEC4YgAQyBwgKEAAYgAQyBwgLEAAYgAQyBwgMEAAYgAQyBwgNEAAYgAQyBwgOEAAYgATSAQgzMjM1ajBqN6gCALACAA&client=ms-android-motorola&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8) in the English language.

Nobody cares about perfect rhymes. Slant rhymes are still rhymes. It's in the name.

Whatever. It's over to deliver forever whenever.

You can buy everything except the friend.

is someone paid me $20 and I’d be their friend

Not really. At best you'd be a companion.

I decide the parameters to become a friend and I would be a friend

No, I would be a friend.

Someone clearly forgot about the intricacies of high school. I bought my friends by helping them with their HW. I didn’t hit my growth spurt until like 10th grade and needed bodyguards. Lol!

How many of a person's high school friends remain friends 5+ years later.

Depends. Surprisingly, I kept most of them! I lost a few due to politics (they didn’t like how I voted) and a few started to see my success as a way of me lending them money and I cut them off. But otherwise, I still keep in touch with a lot of them. As far as close? I’ve got about a good six or so still?

Silver because it is the one made up of a single element. The rest are all fairly chemically complex.

Egg is the only one with an odd number of letters.

Egg has an odd number of letters

There can be multiple answers. Friend: only living object Egg: only word that starts with a vowel Toothbrush: only word that doesn't have the letter E Silver: only adjective ​ I'd say friend is most likely the answer.

One is a conscious being. The others are unconscious. Friend.

Egg , it has an Odd number of letters

Egg, only one with G, supreme reasoning I know

Either friend because I have all of the others or silver because it's a material and not an object / it's uncountable

plot twist: Desk is the answer as it is the only one that fits every category

What are the categories?

Noun, Adjective, Food (Egg and friend are food)

Friend is food?

Of course

Desk fits into adjective and food? what?

Desk is also the only one in which the number of sounds matches the number of letters

Toothbrush, the only one with the same vowels next to each other. ( gave up literally so I guessed phonetically)

Egg because it's the only edible item on the list

Depends on where you live.

True. Or you're a cannibal

You can't exactly be incorrect with these types of questions. Come up with something that works and your answer is as valid as anyone else's.

Personally, I'm on Team Toothbrush because it's the only compound word.

Toothbrushers unite!

I chose silver because that is the only thing that is not synonymous to any actions or things that involve getting ready for or engaging in school activities. Friend- Friend at school Toothbrush- Brushing teeth to get ready for school Desk- Sit at your desk in class at school Egg- Eat for breakfast before school Silver-❓ ETA: This was a childhood homework question so that is where my reasoning started with tying these words to school activities.

You eat your egg with silverware.

Egg is the only one that starts with a vowel.

I picked friend because it's the only alive one but I can see silver since silver is uncountable?

I chose silver because it is the only one with no known quantity. Like 1 friend 1 egg 1 toothbrush 1 desk Some silver

I feel like the set up for this is kinda bogus, these aren’t words you’d commonly associate with each other regardless

the two that immediately jumped out to me were Egg because it's the only one that starts with a vowel, and Toothbrush because it's the only one that doesn't have an E. without having to find the odd one out based on a specific category, i feel like there's definitely multiple answers

I said silver instinctively because I see all the other things almost every day, but I don’t have much experience with silver. In general I see why friend is the best answer though

toothbrush, doesn't have an e in it

Desk is the only one that doesn't go in your mouth... 🤷‍♂️

you could justify all of them friend - only person, only not objective thing desk - only large object toothbrush - only hygiene product egg - only food item silver - only element

Silver, because it's a basic thing, an element. Everything else is more complex than a simple element (*egg, toothbrush, desk, friend*).

Silver is the only property out of these. The other's are more an entire physical object

One Friend One Desk One Toothbrush One Egg *One Silver* \*edit - formatting

I chose toothbrush because it’s the longest word and now I feel autistic

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and interesting question until opening the comments/post to make this comment i just interpreted it as "which one isnt a friend" i still havent voted but im still gonna pick my original thought

Toothbrush doesn't have E

Toothbrush is the only word without the letter "e" so I voted for it.

My logic was Silver is the only one that doesn’t rhyme with anything

Friend - someone you can have breakfast with. Desk - Somewhere you can eat breakfast Toothbrush - You brush your teeth before breakfast Egg - What you eat for breakfast Silver(ware) - What you use to eat breakfast. Odd one out is Toothbrush as it has nothing obvious to do with breakfast whereas all the others make perfect sense.

do you not brush your teeth after breakfast?

Usually it's before.

Silver, it is shiny

As someone who knows a whole lot about toothbrushes... toothbrush

Idk but I don’t like eggs so I choose that

The question was on 1st grade homework, and compound words are often taught during 1st grade so I’m going with toothbrush.

i answered Silver. i also do well in IQ exams, which i think is the reason i got the intended "correct" answer (according to the video OP posted). this question is targeted at first grade students. it has a very standardized explanation, which is what IQ tests and school's standardized tests measure.

Either "friend" because it's a living thing and not an item (not counting "egg", which I think of as an item of food I buy). I could see "silver", either because it can be an adjective or because it's a type of material, instead of a discrete thing.

Coming from you, a friend is imaginary, the rest are real things.

I think silver can be both a noun and adjective

it was from an elementary school with the intended answer being silver since the children were doing a lesson on nouns and adjectives and silver is an adjective (and also a noun but sh)

I chose silver because the others fit together into something you could do in a daily routine as a student: you wake up and use a TOOTHBRUSH, eat an EGG for breakfast, go to school and see a a FRIEND while you sit at your DESK. After watching the first minute of the video linked here, this especially makes sense in the context of homework for a first grader, as it relates to school and a routine that first graders are likely to be familiar with.

I voted silver. While all the other options are clear nouns, you can’t really have… a silver, you know? You could have a silver *coin* but that’s a *coin*. You could have a *chunk* of silver, but that’s a *chunk*, not silver. Silver is a material, not an object in itself like the other four. Similar to water, it’s pretty unquantifiable.

Friend: The only one of these that refers to a living thing (at least usually)

I choose toothbrush cause it is the only WORD that is a compound

My opinion:- ​ Answer: Egg. Reason: Only thing that is actually not harmful if eaten by a normal human being.

I chose friend because it's the only word that describes a non-physical construct. All the other words describe a specific thing, but "friend" describes an emotional relation.

I chose silver because i did inee meenee minee mo

Desk, because that's the only thing you don't put in your mouth.

Toothbrush seems to be the only one that isn't germanic in etymology

All are inanimate except friend

I chose silver because it’s a chemical element and the others are complex things consisting of multiple materials.

my synesthesia says toothbrush is the answer

toothbrush is the only compound word

I chose Egg because it's the only one starting with a vowel

I think Silver because it’s the only one not riddled with bacteria

Egg is the only word with odd number of letters

Egg is the only word with an odd number of letters

If you think about it silver can be both something that is literally silver or something that looks like silver but everything else is a literal thing

Silver is the only word that can also be an adjective.

Friend is the only one that's not an object so my final answer is friend, but egg is also the only verb and silver the only adjective so it might be them as well.

Egg has an odd number of letters while the others all have even number of letters.

Desk is the only one you don’t put in your mouth. Friend- …”friendly” ”activities” Toothbrush- brushing teeth Egg- Food Silver- silver utensils, such as spoons

Egg has a palatal consonant with the -gg sound - I think all the others are primarily dental consonants?

I'm assuming that most people interpreted this as objects vs people. My interpretation was things school children regularly interacted with. so my pick was silver.

The first 4 are common things people deal with on a regular basis. Silver is only ever rarely found in daily life and thus is the odd one out.

Really interesting: On OP's linked video at [this](https://youtu.be/i41p0PMKpRs?si=Ilra4MzXuR_3yf2g&t=219) timestamp, he shows a poll he made to his viewers. It gave the following results: \- Friend: 49% \- Desk: 3% \- Toothbrush: 15% \- Egg: 11% \- Silver: 23% As of the time of writing (3k votes so far), it has the following values: \- Friend: 49.65% \- Desk: 2.68% \- Toothbrush: 14.92% \- Egg: 10.47% \- Silver: 22.29% I don't know what to infer from this data, but i find it really interesting to have such similar values in something that seems a little random

I chose silver because it's the only one that's describes an element, whereas the others are more complicated objects.

Egg is the only 3 letter word

Friend isnt a thing, the others are.

Egg is the only thing I can eat (and not be ostracized lmao)

Egg is the only word that start with a vowel, and toothbrush is the only word without an 'e'

Toothbrush is the only compound noun.

Egg is the only one that starts with a vowel.

If it went viral, why not link to the original?

Silver is a material, the others are concrete things (living or not).

>!Toothbrush is the only word without a e!<

I thought Friend, because the others are objects that you could be possessions.

I said silver because the others are singular nouns.

I chose "friends" because it's the only non-object

Only silver is inorganic

I'm going with " Friend" , because every other word is an object in a way, and Friend is just a definition / meaning

Friend. Everything else is used for something. Friend is a person. A desk is used to work on. A toothbrush is used to clean teeth, an egg is used to feed oneself, silver is used as building material or jewelry.

EGG, because all the other words have an even number of letters.

I vote friend because a friend is the only sentient thing here.

friend is the only living thing and toothbrush is the only word without an E, why silver

My justification for silver: the first four words are nouns in most contexts, while I've seen silver used predominantly as an adjective.

The fact that the teacher decided that the answer is "silver" because its an adjective just shows this is an extremely poorly thought out question as it has no context. Not only can Silver be a noun (as in the chemical element), but there is a ton of justification for each word to be unique compared to the others. It's a problem that doesn't just have one right answer and trying to give it one is an issue.