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URBANIZED
Definition of URBANIZED
adjective
having undergone urbanization
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Word DNA
URBANIZED inherits its ancestry from its root, URBANIZE.
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
URBANIZED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 107, 4 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 125, 22 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 38 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 107, 4 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
URBANIZED starts with U and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ABDEINRUZ - 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.
Could you have found URBANIZED?
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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