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SUBTENDED

9 letters

Definition of SUBTENDED

verb

simple past and past participle of subtend

SUBTEND

verb

To use an angle to delimit (mark off, enclose) part of a straight or curved line, for example an arc or the opposite side of a triangle.

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Word DNA

SUBTENDED inherits its ancestry from its root, SUBTEND.

Line of descent

  1. Ancient Greek
  2. Latin
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Ancient Greek

Deepest traced root

3rd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

12.3%

of traced words share this origin (10,543)

Hellenic

branch · 12.3% of traced words

How it is built

verbcompound

Same root, SUBTEND · 2 relatives in the game

Every Ancient Greek word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

SUBTENDED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 172
Its one board, across 172 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
172
First board
0
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 172, 8 November 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

woollyrhino

on Day 172, 8 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

SUBTENDED
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

SUBTENDED starts with S and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read BDDEENSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and D appear more than once.

Words that start SUBTEN

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

SUBTENDSUBTENDSSUBTENSESUBTENANTSUBTENSESSUBTENURESUBTENANCYSUBTENANTSSUBTENDINGSUBTENURESSUBTENANCIES

Could you have found SUBTENDED?

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 172 - and most players walked straight past it.

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