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TEMPT
Definition of TEMPT
verb
To provoke someone to do wrong, especially by promising a reward; to entice.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English tempten, from Old French tempter (French: tenter), from Latin temptare, from tentare (“to handle, touch, try, test, tempt”), frequentative of tendere (“to stretch”). Displaced native English costning (“temptation”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (26,450)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, TEMPT · 4 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.
TEMPT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 23 days.
First found by a player on Day 154, 21 October 2026.
Built from these letters
TEMPT starts with T and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read EMPTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T appears more than once.
Words that start TEMPT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found TEMPT?
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 154 - and most players walked straight past it.
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