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UNLEARNT

/ʌnˈlɜːnt/8 letters

Definition of UNLEARNT

verb

simple past and past participle of unlearn

UNLEARN

verb

To discard the knowledge of.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English unlernd, equivalent to unlearn + -t.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

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 (2,223)

Germanic

branch · 22.3% of traced words

How it is built

verb2 syllablescompound

Every Middle 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.

UNLEARNT in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 146
Its one board, across 146 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
132
First board
14
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 14 days.

First ever to find it

hopewell

on Day 132, 29 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

UNLEARNT
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start UNLEAR

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

UNLEARNUNLEARNSUNLEARNEDUNLEARNINGUNLEARNABLEUNLEARNEDLY

Could you have found UNLEARNT?

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 132 - and most players walked straight past it.

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