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FORESHOWN

9 letters

Definition of FORESHOWN

verb

simple past and past participle of foreshow

FORESHOW

verb

To show in advance; to foretell, predict.

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Word DNA

FORESHOWN inherits its ancestry from its root, FORESHOW.

Line of descent

  1. Old English
  2. Middle English
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Old English

Deepest traced root

7th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

3.7%

of traced words share this origin (2,855)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

verbcompoundfore-

Same root, FORESHOW · 5 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Dutch, German.

Every Old English word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

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.

FORESHOWN in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 5 boards so far.

Day 1Day 157
Its 5 boards, across 157 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
5
Boards found on
72
First board
107
Latest board
18
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 107, 4 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 50 days.

First ever to find it

slurpthemtoes

on Day 80, 8 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

FORESHOWN
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

FORESHOWN starts with F and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read EFHNOORSW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.

Words that start FORESH

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found FORESHOWN?

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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.

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