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TENDENCY
Definition of TENDENCY
noun
A likelihood of behaving in a particular way or going in a particular direction; a tending toward.
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Where it comes from
From Medieval Latin tendentia, from tendens, present participle of tendō.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
TENDENCY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 90, 18 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 37 days.
First found by a player on Day 90, 18 August 2026.
Built from these letters
TENDENCY starts with T and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read CDEENNTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and N appear more than once.
Words that start TENDEN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found TENDENCY?
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 90 - and most players walked straight past it.
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