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UNSTABLY

8 letters

Definition of UNSTABLY

adverb

In an unstable manner.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From unstable + -ly or un- + stably.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

UNSTABLY in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 102
Its 3 boards, across 102 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
60
First board
94
Latest board
32
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 60, 19 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 94, 22 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.

First ever to find it

tindi

on Day 60, 19 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

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

Words that start UNSTAB

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

UNSTABLEUNSTABLERUNSTABLESTUNSTABLENESSUNSTABLENESSES

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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 60 - and most players walked straight past it.

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