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DRINKABLE

/ˈdɹɪŋk.ə.bəl/9 letters

Definition of DRINKABLE

adjective

Able to be drunk (as liquid).

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English drinkable, drynkeable, equivalent to drink + -able.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Middle English
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Middle English

Deepest traced root

4th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

6.2%

of traced words share this origin (5,109)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

adjective3 syllablescompound-able

Same root, DRINKABLE · 1 relative in the game

Every Middle English word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

DRINKABLE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 15 boards so far. 41 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 166
Its 15 boards, across 166 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
15
Boards found on
37
First board
164
Latest board
25
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 37, 26 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 164, 31 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

samantharaney

on Day 37, 26 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

DRINKABLE
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
9
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

BRANDLIKE

Words that start DRINKA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

DRINKABLYDRINKABLESDRINKABILITYDRINKABILITIES

Could you have found DRINKABLE?

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 37 - and most players walked straight past it.

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