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UPENDING

8 letters

Definition of UPENDING

verb

present participle and gerund of upend

UPEND

verb

To end up; to set on end.

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Word DNA

UPENDING inherits its ancestry from its root, UPEND.

How it is built

verbcompoundup-

Same root, UPEND · 3 relatives in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

UPENDING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 140
Its one board, across 140 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
132
First board
8
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.

First ever to find it

htrae1

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

Built from these letters

UPENDING
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Could you have found UPENDING?

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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