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UPHEAVALS
Definition of UPHEAVALS
noun
plural of upheaval
noun
The process of being heaved upward, especially the raising of part of the earth's crust.
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Word DNA
UPHEAVALS inherits its ancestry from its root, UPHEAVE.
Line of descent
- Old English
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.7%
of traced words share this origin (2,849)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, UPHEAVE · 7 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Dutch, German.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
UPHEAVALS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 21 boards so far. 51 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 22, 11 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 136, 3 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 19 days.
First found by a player on Day 22, 11 June 2026.
Built from these letters
UPHEAVALS starts with U and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AAEHLPSUV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start UPHEAV
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 22
Could you have found UPHEAVALS?
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 22 - and most players walked straight past it.
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