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UNCASE

6 letters

Definition of UNCASE

verb

To skin or flay.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From un- + case.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

verbcompoundun-

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.

UNCASE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 149
Its 3 boards, across 149 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
75
First board
129
Latest board
39
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 75, 3 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 129, 26 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 20 days.

First ever to find it

ladylark

on Day 75, 3 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

UNCASE
6
Letters
3
Vowels
3
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Same letters, different word

2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start UNCASE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

UNCASEDUNCASES

Could you have found UNCASE?

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 75 - and most players walked straight past it.

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