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PORTENDED
Definition of PORTENDED
verb
simple past and past participle of portend
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Word DNA
PORTENDED inherits its ancestry from its root, PORTEND.
Line of descent
- Latin
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
33%
of traced words share this origin (9,764)
branch · 33% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PORTEND · 3 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PORTENDED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 18 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 132, 29 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PORTENDED starts with P and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DDEENOPRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and D 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.
Words that start PORTEN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PORTENDED?
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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