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TEMPTING

/ˈtɛmp.tɪŋ/8 letters

Definition of TEMPTING

adjective

Attractive, appealing, enticing.

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Word DNA

TEMPTING inherits its ancestry from its root, TEMPT.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. Old French
  3. Middle English
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.7%

of traced words share this origin (26,450)

Italic

branch · 30.7% of traced words

How it is built

adjective2 syllables

Same root, TEMPT · 4 relatives in the game

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

TEMPTING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 177
Its one board, across 177 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
154
First board
23
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 23 days.

First ever to find it

igeek

on Day 154, 21 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

TEMPTING
8
Letters
2
Vowels
6
Consonants
7
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

TEMPTING starts with T and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read EGIMNPTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T appears more than once.

Words that start TEMPTI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

TEMPTINGSTEMPTINGLY

Could you have found TEMPTING?

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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