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FORGET
Definition of FORGET
verb
To lose remembrance of.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English forgeten, forgiten, foryeten, forȝiten, from Old English forġietan (“to forget”) [influenced by Old Norse geta ("to get, to guess")], from Proto-West Germanic *fragetan (“to give up, forget”). Equivalent to for- + get. Cognate with:
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
8th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.3%
of traced words share this origin (2,761)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, FORGET · 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.
FORGET in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 22 boards so far. 69 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 31, 20 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 163, 30 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 31, 20 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
FORGET starts with F and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read EFGORT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start FORGET
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 31
Could you have found FORGET?
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 31 - and most players walked straight past it.
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