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DISTURBANCE
Definition of DISTURBANCE
noun
The act of disturbing, being disturbed.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English disturbaunce, from Old French destorbance, destourbance, from destourber (“disturb”), from Latin disturbō. By surface analysis, disturb + -ance.
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.
DISTURBANCE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 10 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 20, 9 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 96, 24 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First found by a player on Day 20, 9 June 2026.
Built from these letters
DISTURBANCE starts with D and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ABCDEINRSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start DISTURB
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 20
Could you have found DISTURBANCE?
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 20 - and most players walked straight past it.
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