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FORERUNS

8 letters

Definition of FORERUNS

verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of forerun

FORERUN

verb

To run in front.

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Word DNA

FORERUNS inherits its ancestry from its root, FORERUN.

How it is built

verbcompoundfore-

Same root, FORERUN · 1 relative in the game

Its etymology also names Swedish.

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Rarity score
Withheld
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.

FORERUNS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 172
Its one board, across 172 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
151
First board
21
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 151, 18 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 21 days.

First ever to find it

unrealcities

on Day 151, 18 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

FORERUNS starts with F and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EFNORRSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once.

Words that start FORERU

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

FORERUNFORERUNNERFORERUNNERSFORERUNNING

Could you have found FORERUNS?

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 151 - and most players walked straight past it.

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