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UNBEARABLE
Definition of UNBEARABLE
adjective
So unpleasant or painful as to be unendurable.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English unberable, equivalent to un- + bearable.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Middle English
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
4th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
7.7%
of traced words share this origin (2,311)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
UNBEARABLE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 151, 18 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 151, 18 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
UNBEARABLE starts with U and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AABBEELNRU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. B, E and A appear more than once.
Words that start UNBEAR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found UNBEARABLE?
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 151 - and most players walked straight past it.
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