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UNKINDEST

9 letters

Definition of UNKINDEST

adjective

superlative form of unkind: most unkind

UNKIND

adjective

Lacking kindness, sympathy, benevolence, gratitude, or similar; cruel, harsh or unjust; ungrateful.

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Word DNA

UNKINDEST inherits its ancestry from its root, UNKIND.

Line of descent

  1. Middle English
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Middle English

Deepest traced root

4th

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

7.6%

of traced words share this origin (2,177)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

adjectivecompoundun-

Same root, UNKIND · 2 relatives in the game

Every Middle English 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.

UNKINDEST in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 140
Its one board, across 140 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
139
First board
1
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 139, 6 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

jplatt88

on Day 139, 6 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

UNKINDEST
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start UNKIND

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

UNKINDUNKINDERUNKINDLYUNKINDLEDUNKINDLIERUNKINDNESSUNKINDLIESTUNKINDLINESSUNKINDNESSESUNKINDLINESSES

Could you have found UNKINDEST?

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 139 - and most players walked straight past it.

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