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FORESWEAR

9 letters

Definition of FORESWEAR

verb

Alternative spelling of forswear.

FORSWEAR

verb

To renounce or deny something, especially under oath.

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Word DNA

FORESWEAR inherits its ancestry from its root, FORSWEAR.

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 (2,890)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

verbcompoundfor-

Same root, FORSWEAR · 3 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names German.

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

Rarity score
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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.

FORESWEAR in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 159
Its one board, across 159 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
151
First board
8
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 151, 18 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.

First ever to find it

yecats

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

Built from these letters

FORESWEAR
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

FORESWEAR starts with F and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read AEEFORRSW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R and E appear more than once.

Words that start FORESW

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

FORESWOREFORESWORNFORESWEARSFORESWEARING

Could you have found FORESWEAR?

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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