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TENDERING

9 letters

Definition of TENDERING

verb

present participle and gerund of tender

TENDER

adjective

Sensitive or painful to the touch.

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Word DNA

TENDERING inherits its ancestry from its root, TENDER.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. Old French
  3. Anglo-Norman
  4. Middle English
  5. English

4 recorded generations before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.7%

of traced words share this origin (23,951)

Italic

branch · 30.7% of traced words

How it is built

verb

Every Latin word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

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.

TENDERING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 157
Its 2 boards, across 157 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
132
First board
154
Latest board
22
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First ever to find it

samfern

on Day 132, 29 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

TENDERING starts with T and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read DEEGINNRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and N appear more than once.

Words that start TENDER

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

TENDERTENDERSTENDEREDTENDERERTENDERLYTENDERERSTENDERESTTENDERISETENDERIZETENDERABLETENDERFEETTENDERFOOT

Could you have found TENDERING?

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 132 - and most players walked straight past it.

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