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TENDUS

6 letters

Definition of TENDUS

noun

plural of tendu

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.

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Word DNA

TENDUS inherits its ancestry from its root, TENDU.

Line of descent

  1. French
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

French

Deepest traced root

5th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

5.3%

of traced words share this origin (4,144)

Romance

branch · 12.9% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, TENDU · 1 relative in the game

Every French 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.

TENDUS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 6 boards so far.

Day 1Day 158
Its 6 boards, across 158 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
6
Boards found on
37
First board
132
Latest board
59
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 37, 26 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 132, 29 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 26 days.

First ever to find it

cellophane

on Day 37, 26 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

TENDUS
6
Letters
2
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

TENDUS starts with T and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read DENSTU - 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.

Could you have found TENDUS?

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 37 - and most players walked straight past it.

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