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WENDING
Definition of WENDING
verb
present participle and gerund of wend
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Word DNA
WENDING inherits its ancestry from its root, WEND.
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
8.8%
of traced words share this origin (2,662)
How it is built
Same root, WEND · 4 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Danish, Dutch, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish.
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
WENDING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 154, 21 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
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
WENDING starts with W and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read DEGINNW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N appears more than once.
Words that start WENDIN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found WENDING?
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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