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FORSAKE
Definition of FORSAKE
verb
To abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something).
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Where it comes from
From Middle English forsaken (“to abandon, desert, repudiate, withdraw allegiance from”), from Old English forsacan (“to oppose; to give up, renounce; to decline, refuse”), from Proto-West Germanic *frasakan (“to forsake, renounce”). By surface analysis, for- + sake. Cognates include Saterland Frisian ferseeke (“to deny, refuse”), West Frisian fersaakje, Dutch verzaken (“to renounce, forsake”), Middle High German versachen (“to deny”), Danish forsage (“to give up”), Swedish försaka (“to be without, give up”), Norwegian forsake (“to give up, renounce”), Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌺𐌰𐌽 (sakan, “to quarrel; to rebuke”),.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FORSAKE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 9 boards so far. 12 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 58, 17 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 103, 31 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 58, 17 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
FORSAKE starts with F and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEFKORS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start FORSAK
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 58
Could you have found FORSAKE?
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 58 - and most players walked straight past it.
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