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DISPENDED

9 letters

Definition of DISPENDED

verb

simple past and past participle of dispend

DISPEND

verb

To spend or expend.

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Word DNA

DISPENDED inherits its ancestry from its root, DISPEND.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. Old French
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

32.5%

of traced words share this origin (8,667)

Italic

branch · 32.5% of traced words

How it is built

verb

Same root, DISPEND · 1 relative in the game

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Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
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.

DISPENDED 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
134
First board
1
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 134, 1 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

jaythenerdkidPATRON

on Day 134, 1 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

DISPENDED
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start DISPEN

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

DISPENDDISPENCEDISPENDSDISPENSEDISPENCEDDISPENCESDISPENSEDDISPENSERDISPENSESDISPENCINGDISPENDINGDISPENSARY

Could you have found DISPENDED?

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 134 - and most players walked straight past it.

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