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TENDON
Definition of TENDON
noun
A tough band of flexible but inelastic fibrous collagen tissue that connects a muscle with its bony attachment and transmits the force which the muscle exerts.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French tendon or Medieval Latin tendō, from Ancient Greek τένων (ténōn, “sinew, tendon”), modified by association with the verb tendō (“to stretch”). Compare Middle English thenoun.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Ancient Greek
- Latin
- French
- English
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
12.4%
of traced words share this origin (10,357)
branch · 12.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, TENDON · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Middle English.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
TENDON in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 159, 26 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.
First found by a player on Day 159, 26 October 2026.
Built from these letters
TENDON starts with T and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read DENNOT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N appears more than once.
Words that start TENDON
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
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