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FORTILAGES

10 letters

Definition of FORTILAGES

noun

plural of fortilage

FORTILAGE

noun

A little fort; a blockhouse.

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Word DNA

FORTILAGES inherits its ancestry from its root, FORTILAGE.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

33.1%

of traced words share this origin (9,912)

Italic

branch · 33.1% of traced words

How it is built

noun-age

Same root, FORTILAGE · 1 relative in the game

Every Latin word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

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.

FORTILAGES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 152
Its 2 boards, across 152 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
72
First board
141
Latest board
69
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 141, 8 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.

First ever to find it

yeti

on Day 141, 8 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

FORTILAGES
10
Letters
4
Vowels
6
Consonants
10
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

FORTILAGES starts with F and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEFGILORST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start FORTIL

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found FORTILAGES?

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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.

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