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ALERT
Definition of ALERT
adjective
Attentive; awake; on guard.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From French alerte (“alert”), from the phrase à l'erte (“on the watch”), from Italian all'erta (“to the height”), from erta (“lookout, tower”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
10th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
1.9%
of traced words share this origin (564)
branch · 15.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, ALERT · 2 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ALERT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 97, 25 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 119, 16 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 27 days.
First found by a player on Day 119, 16 September 2026.
Built from these letters
ALERT starts with A and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AELRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
5 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start ALERT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ALERT?
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 97 - and most players walked straight past it.
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