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PATIENTED
Definition of PATIENTED
Wiktionary has no entry for PATIENTED itself. This is its base word, PATIENT.
adjective
Willing to wait if necessary; not losing one's temper while waiting.
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Where it comes from
The origin recorded for PATIENT.
From Middle English pacient, from Middle French patient, from Old French pacient, from Latin patiens, present participle of patior (“to suffer, endure”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₁- (“to hate, hurt”).
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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.
PATIENTED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 117, 14 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 117, 14 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PATIENTED starts with P and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ADEEINPTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T and E appear more than once.
Words that start PATIEN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PATIENTED?
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 117 - and most players walked straight past it.
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