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UNICORNED

9 letters

Definition of UNICORNED

verb

simple past and past participle of unicorn

UNICORN

noun

A mythical horselike creature with a horn on its forehead, supposed to be extremely rare and to be drawn to virgins and other chaste maidens.

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Word DNA

UNICORNED inherits its ancestry from its root, UNICORN.

Line of descent

  1. Ancient Greek
  2. Latin
  3. Old French
  4. Anglo-Norman
  5. Middle English
  6. English

5 recorded generations before English.

Ancient Greek

Deepest traced root

3rd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

12.4%

of traced words share this origin (10,357)

Hellenic

branch · 12.4% of traced words

How it is built

verbcompound

Same root, UNICORN · 2 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Old English.

Every Ancient Greek 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.

UNICORNED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 170
Its 3 boards, across 170 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
145
First board
159
Latest board
9
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 145, 12 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 159, 26 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.

First ever to find it

xenkis

on Day 145, 12 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

UNICORNED
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start UNICOR

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found UNICORNED?

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 145 - and most players walked straight past it.

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