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URBANIZE

8 letters

Definition of URBANIZE

verb

To make something more urban in character.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From urban + -ize.

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.

URBANIZE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

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Its one board, across 109 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
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Boards found on
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First board
2
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 107, 4 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

gconn57SUPPORTER

on Day 107, 4 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

URBANIZE
8
Letters
4
Vowels
4
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

URBANIZE starts with U and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ABEINRUZ - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses Z - among the least common letters in written English.

Words that start URBANI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

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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 107 - and most players walked straight past it.

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