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FORTHINK
Definition of FORTHINK
verb
To cause distress or regret to; cause to regret or repent; to vex.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English forthinken, forthynken (“to displease, cause to regret”), corresponding to for- (“mis-”) + think (“to seem, appear”), from Old English þyncan (“to seem, appear”); see methinks. Cognate with Middle High German verdunken (“to displease”), Icelandic forþykkja (“to displease”). Compare also Old English forþencan (“to mistrust, despise, despair”), Dutch verdenken (“to suspect”), German verdenken (“to blame”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Old English
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.7%
of traced words share this origin (2,971)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, FORTHINK · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Dutch, German, Icelandic.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FORTHINK in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 103, 31 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 122, 19 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 40 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 103, 31 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
FORTHINK starts with F and ends with K. Sorted, its letters read FHIKNORT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start FORTHI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found FORTHINK?
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 103 - and most players walked straight past it.
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