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DIABOLISE

9 letters

Definition of DIABOLISE

verb

Alternative form of diabolize.

DIABOLIZE

verb

to represent as diabolical

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Word DNA

DIABOLISE inherits its ancestry from its root, DIABOLIZE.

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 (4,122)

Romance

branch · 12.9% of traced words

How it is built

verb

Same root, DIABOLIZE · 2 relatives in the game

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

DIABOLISE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 4 boards so far.

Day 1Day 155
Its 4 boards, across 155 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
4
Boards found on
72
First board
151
Latest board
56
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 151, 18 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.

First ever to find it

melinoquent

on Day 128, 25 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

DIABOLISE
9
Letters
5
Vowels
4
Consonants
8
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

DIABOLISE starts with D and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ABDEIILOS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.

Words that start DIABOL

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

DIABOLODIABOLICDIABOLOSDIABOLISMDIABOLISTDIABOLIZEDIABOLOGYDIABOLICALDIABOLISEDDIABOLISESDIABOLISMSDIABOLISTS

Could you have found DIABOLISE?

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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.

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