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UNBENDED

8 letters

Definition of UNBENDED

verb

simple past and past participle of unbend

UNBEND

verb

To remove a bend so as to make, or allow to become, straight.

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Word DNA

UNBENDED inherits its ancestry from its root, UNBEND.

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 (5,287)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

verbcompoundun-

Same root, UNBEND · 3 relatives in the game

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

UNBENDED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 173
Its one board, across 173 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
172
First board
1
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 172, 8 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

sycron

on Day 172, 8 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

UNBENDED
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

UNBENDED starts with U and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read BDDEENNU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N, E and D appear more than once.

Words that start UNBEND

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

UNBENDUNBENDSUNBENDINGUNBENDABLEUNBENDINGSUNBENDINGLY

Could you have found UNBENDED?

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 172 - and most players walked straight past it.

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