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DENTED

6 letters

Definition of DENTED

verb

simple past and past participle of dent

DENT

noun

A shallow deformation in the surface of an object, produced by an impact.

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Word DNA

DENTED inherits its ancestry from its root, DENT.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Germanic
  2. Old English
  3. Middle English
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Germanic

Deepest traced root

7th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

3.5%

of traced words share this origin (937)

Germanic

branch · 22.8% of traced words

How it is built

verb

Same root, DENT · 2 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Old Norse.

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Tier
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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.

DENTED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 135
Its one board, across 135 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
132
First board
3
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First ever to find it

brycewcross

on Day 132, 29 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

DENTED
6
Letters
2
Vowels
4
Consonants
4
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

DENTED starts with D and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DDEENT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. D and E appear more than once.

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

TENDED

Could you have found DENTED?

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 132 - and most players walked straight past it.

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