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TENUOUS
Definition of TENUOUS
adjective
Thin in substance or consistency.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Irregularly formed from Latin tenuis (“thin, slight”) + -ous. Compare tenuious.
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.
TENUOUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 28 boards so far. 38 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 33, 22 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 33, 22 June 2026.
Built from these letters
TENUOUS starts with T and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ENOSTUU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. U appears more than once.
Words that start TENUOU
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 33
Could you have found TENUOUS?
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 33 - and most players walked straight past it.
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