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UNLAWS

6 letters

Definition of UNLAWS

noun

plural of unlaw

UNLAW

noun

A crime, an illegal action.

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Word DNA

UNLAWS inherits its ancestry from its root, UNLAW.

Line of descent

  1. Old English
  2. Middle English
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Old English

Deepest traced root

7th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

3.7%

of traced words share this origin (2,961)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompoundun-

Same root, UNLAW · 2 relatives in the game

Every Old English word → · 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.

UNLAWS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 162
Its 2 boards, across 162 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
94
First board
99
Latest board
5
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 94, 22 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 99, 27 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 63 days.

First ever to find it

kimmy

on Day 94, 22 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

UNLAWS
6
Letters
2
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Could you have found UNLAWS?

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 94 - and most players walked straight past it.

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