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UNFAVOURABLE
Definition of UNFAVOURABLE
adjective
Serving to hinder or oppose; adverse, disadvantageous, inconducive, unsuitable.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From un- + favourable.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, UNFAVOURABLE · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
UNFAVOURABLE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 53, 12 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 105 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 53, 12 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
UNFAVOURABLE starts with U and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AABEFLNORUUV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. U and A appear more than once.
Words that start UNFAVOUR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 53
Could you have found UNFAVOURABLE?
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 53 - and most players walked straight past it.
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