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AMEND
Definition of AMEND
verb
To make better; improve.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English amenden, from Old French amender, from Latin ēmendō (“free from faults”), from ex (“from, out of”) + mendum (“fault”). Compare aphetic mend. Doublet of emend.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,912)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, AMEND · 5 relatives 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.
AMEND in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 14 boards so far. 13 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 9, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First found by a player on Day 9, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
AMEND starts with A and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ADEMN - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
5 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start AMEND
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 9
Could you have found AMEND?
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 9 - and most players walked straight past it.
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