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VENDINGS
Definition of VENDINGS
Wiktionary has no entry for VENDINGS itself. This is its base word, VEND.
verb
Synonym of sell, to sell through a vending machine.
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Where it comes from
The origin recorded for VEND.
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).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- Old French
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (26,450)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
VENDINGS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 45 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 132, 29 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
VENDINGS starts with V and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read DEGINNSV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N appears more than once.
Words that start VENDIN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found VENDINGS?
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 132 - and most players walked straight past it.
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