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PROTENDS
Definition of PROTENDS
verb
third-person singular simple present indicative of protend
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Word DNA
PROTENDS inherits its ancestry from its root, PROTEND.
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, PROTEND · 1 relative 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.
PROTENDS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 81, 9 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 108, 5 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 42 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 81, 9 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PROTENDS starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read DENOPRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
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 PROTEN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PROTENDS?
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 81 - and most players walked straight past it.
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