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FORTEPIANOS

11 letters

Definition of FORTEPIANOS

noun

plural of fortepiano

FORTEPIANO

noun

A keyboard instrument; the smaller, quieter precursor to the pianoforte.

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Word DNA

FORTEPIANOS inherits its ancestry from its root, FORTEPIANO.

Line of descent

  1. Italian
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Italian

Deepest traced root

10th

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

2%

of traced words share this origin (576)

Romance

branch · 15.4% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound

Same root, FORTEPIANO · 1 relative in the game

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

FORTEPIANOS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 12 boards so far. 11 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 149
Its 12 boards, across 149 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
12
Boards found on
29
First board
149
Latest board
34
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 29, 18 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 149, 16 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First found by a player on Day 29, 18 June 2026.

Built from these letters

FORTEPIANOS
11
Letters
5
Vowels
6
Consonants
10
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

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

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start FORTEPI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found FORTEPIANOS?

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 29 - and most players walked straight past it.

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