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UNCOUTHER

9 letters

Definition of UNCOUTHER

adjective

comparative form of uncouth: more uncouth

UNCOUTH

adjective

Unfamiliar, strange, foreign.

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Word DNA

UNCOUTHER inherits its ancestry from its root, UNCOUTH.

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 (3,861)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

adjectivecompoundun-

Same root, UNCOUTH · 3 relatives in the game

Every Proto-Germanic word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

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.

UNCOUTHER in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 38 boards so far. 71 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 165
Its 38 boards, across 165 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
38
Boards found on
29
First board
164
Latest board
11
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 29, 18 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 164, 31 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First found by a player on Day 31, 20 June 2026.

Built from these letters

UNCOUTHER
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

UNCOUTHER starts with U and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read CEHNORTUU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. U appears more than once.

Words that start UNCOUT

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

UNCOUTHUNCOUTHLYUNCOUTHESTUNCOUTHNESSUNCOUTHNESSES

Could you have found UNCOUTHER?

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 29 - and most players walked straight past it.

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