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SUSPEND
Definition of SUSPEND
verb
To halt something temporarily.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Old French sospendre, from Latin suspendere.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- Old French
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (26,234)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, SUSPEND · 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.
SUSPEND in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 162, 29 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.
First found by a player on Day 162, 29 October 2026.
Built from these letters
SUSPEND starts with S and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DENPSSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start SUSPEN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SUSPEND?
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 162 - and most players walked straight past it.
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