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MENDING
Definition of MENDING
verb
present participle and gerund of mend
verb
To physically repair (something that is broken, defaced, decayed, torn, or otherwise damaged).
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Word DNA
MENDING inherits its ancestry from its root, MEND.
Line of descent
5 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.2%
of traced words share this origin (11,769)
How it is built
Same root, MEND · 6 relatives in the game
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
MENDING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 145, 12 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 166, 2 November 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 145, 12 October 2026.
Built from these letters
MENDING starts with M and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read DEGIMNN - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N appears more than once.
Words that start MENDIN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found MENDING?
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 145 - and most players walked straight past it.
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