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VEND
Definition of VEND
verb
Synonym of sell, to sell through a vending machine.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
17th century, likely a backformation from earlier vendible, vendee, vendor inspired by the underlying French vendre, from Old French vendre, from Latin vendere, from vēnum dāre (“to give (something for) sale”).
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.
VEND in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 9 boards so far. 10 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 70, 29 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 119, 16 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 70, 29 July 2026.
Built from these letters
VEND starts with V and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DENV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start VEND
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found VEND?
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 70 - and most players walked straight past it.
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