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ENTERTAIN
Definition of ENTERTAIN
verb
To amuse (someone); to engage the attention of agreeably.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English entertenen, from Middle French entretenir, from Old French entretenir, from entre (“among”) + tenir (“to hold”), from Latin inter + teneō (“hold, keep”). For the noun, compare French entretien. Sense of answering a phone call in Malaysian English is influenced by Malay layan “to serve, to attend to or engage with something”.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ENTERTAIN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 90, 18 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.
First found by a player on Day 90, 18 August 2026.
Built from these letters
ENTERTAIN starts with E and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AEEINNRTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E, N and T appear more than once.
Words that start ENTERT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ENTERTAIN?
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 90 - and most players walked straight past it.
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