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DISPUTE

/dɪˈspjuːt/7 letters

Definition of DISPUTE

noun

An argument or disagreement; a failure to agree.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English disputen, from Old French desputer (French disputer), from Latin disputāre (“to dispute, discuss, examine, compute, estimate”), from dis- (“apart”) + putāre (“to reckon, consider, think, originally make clean, clear up”), related to purus (“pure”). Compare compute, count, impute, repute, amputate, etc.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

DISPUTE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 11 boards so far. 11 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 102
Its 11 boards, across 102 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
11
Boards found on
25
First board
102
Latest board
36
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 25, 14 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

chaimae

on Day 25, 14 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

DISPUTE
7
Letters
3
Vowels
4
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

DISPUTE starts with D and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read DEIPSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start DISPUT

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

DISPUTEDDISPUTERDISPUTESDISPUTANTDISPUTERSDISPUTINGDISPUTABLEDISPUTABLYDISPUTANTSDISPUTATIONDISPUTATIVEDISPUTATIONS

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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 25 - and most players walked straight past it.

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