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UNTENDERLY

10 letters

Definition of UNTENDERLY

adverb

Without tenderness.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English untenderly, untendirly, equivalent to untender + -ly.

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 59 source languages in OUTLIER

6.2%

of traced words share this origin (5,283)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

adverbcompound-ly

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.

UNTENDERLY in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 172
Its one board, across 172 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
132
First board
40
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 40 days.

First ever to find it

kb_reader

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

Built from these letters

UNTENDERLY
10
Letters
3
Vowels
7
Consonants
8
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

UNTENDERLY starts with U and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read DEELNNRTUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N and E appear more than once.

Words that start UNTEND

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

UNTENDEDUNTENDERUNTENDERED

Could you have found UNTENDERLY?

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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