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UNTILES

7 letters

Definition of UNTILES

verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of untile

UNTILE

verb

To remove the tiles from.

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Word DNA

UNTILES inherits its ancestry from its root, UNTIL.

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

verbcompoundun-

Same root, UNTIL · 3 relatives in the game

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.

UNTILES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 147
Its 3 boards, across 147 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
41
First board
130
Latest board
66
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 41, 30 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 130, 27 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 17 days.

First ever to find it

laconic

on Day 41, 30 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

UNTILES
7
Letters
3
Vowels
4
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Same letters, different word

3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start UNTILE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found UNTILES?

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 41 - and most players walked straight past it.

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