The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
TENDU
Definition of TENDU
noun
A move in which the leg and foot stretch to point in a particular direction, but the foot does not leave the floor.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From French tendu (“stretched”).
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.
TENDU in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 9 boards so far. 11 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 34, 23 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 109, 6 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 34, 23 June 2026.
Built from these letters
TENDU starts with T and ends with U. Sorted, its letters read DENTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Also seen on Day 34
Could you have found TENDU?
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 34 - and most players walked straight past it.
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