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INSCRUTABLE
Definition of INSCRUTABLE
adjective
Difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom, or interpret.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed into late Middle English from Late Latin īnscrūtābilis, from in- (“not”) + scrūtō (“to examine”), corresponding to in- + scrutable
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.6%
of traced words share this origin (24,726)
branch · 30.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, INSCRUTABLE · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
INSCRUTABLE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 43 boards so far. 94 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 162, 29 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
INSCRUTABLE starts with I and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ABCEILNRSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start INSCRUT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found INSCRUTABLE?
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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.
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