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UNAPT

5 letters

Definition of UNAPT

adjective

Not apt, inappropriate, unsuited.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English unapt, equivalent to un- + apt.

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

adjectivecompoundun-

Same root, UNAPT · 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.

UNAPT in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 16 boards so far. 14 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 166
Its 16 boards, across 166 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
16
Boards found on
70
First board
160
Latest board
18
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 70, 29 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 160, 27 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.

First ever to find it

otzitheiceman

on Day 70, 29 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

UNAPT
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

UNAPT starts with U and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ANPTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start UNAPT

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

UNAPTLYUNAPTNESSUNAPTNESSES

Could you have found UNAPT?

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 70 - and most players walked straight past it.

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