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FORGIVE
Definition of FORGIVE
verb
To pardon (someone); to waive any negative feeling towards or desire for punishment or retribution against.
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Where it comes from
Alteration (due to give) of Middle English foryiven, forȝiven, from Old English forġiefan (“to forgive, to give”), from Proto-West Germanic *frageban, from Proto-Germanic *fragebaną (“to give away; give up; release; forgive”), equivalent to for- + give (etymologically for- + yive). Cognate with Scots forgeve, forgif, forgie (“to forgive”), West Frisian ferjaan (“to forgive”), Dutch vergeven (“to forgive”), German vergeben (“to forgive”), Icelandic fyrirgefa (“to forgive”), Yiddish פֿאַרגעבן (fargebn, “to forgive”)
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
6th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
4.7%
of traced words share this origin (3,672)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, FORGIVE · 3 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Dutch, Icelandic, Scots, Yiddish.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FORGIVE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 11 boards so far. 11 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 41, 30 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 143, 10 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.
First found by a player on Day 41, 30 June 2026.
Built from these letters
FORGIVE starts with F and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EFGIORV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start FORGIV
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 41
Could you have found FORGIVE?
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 41 - and most players walked straight past it.
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