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FORESHOCKS

10 letters

Definition of FORESHOCKS

noun

plural of foreshock

FORESHOCK

noun

A small earth tremor which precedes the mainshock in an earthquake sequence.

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Word DNA

FORESHOCKS inherits its ancestry from its root, FORESHOCK.

How it is built

nouncompoundfore-

Same root, FORESHOCK · 1 relative in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

FORESHOCKS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 168
Its one board, across 168 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
153
First board
15
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 153, 20 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 15 days.

First ever to find it

cjmusic

on Day 153, 20 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

FORESHOCKS
10
Letters
3
Vowels
7
Consonants
8
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

FORESHOCKS starts with F and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CEFHKOORSS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O and S appear more than once.

Words that start FORESH

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found FORESHOCKS?

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 153 - and most players walked straight past it.

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