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UNBINDS

7 letters

Definition of UNBINDS

verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of unbind

UNBIND

verb

To take bindings off.

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Word DNA

UNBINDS inherits its ancestry from its root, UNBIND.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Germanic
  2. Old English
  3. Middle English
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Germanic

Deepest traced root

6th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

4.7%

of traced words share this origin (3,940)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

verbcompoundun-

Same root, UNBIND · 2 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Dutch.

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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.

UNBINDS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 169
Its 2 boards, across 169 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
159
First board
166
Latest board
7
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 159, 26 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 166, 2 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First ever to find it

jplatt88

on Day 159, 26 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

UNBINDS
7
Letters
2
Vowels
5
Consonants
6
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

UNBINDS starts with U and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read BDINNSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N appears more than once.

Words that start UNBIND

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

UNBINDUNBINDEDUNBINDINGUNBINDINGS

Could you have found UNBINDS?

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 159 - and most players walked straight past it.

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