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FORTUNATES
Definition of FORTUNATES
Wiktionary has no entry for FORTUNATES itself. This is its base word, FORTUNATE.
adjective
Auspicious.
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Where it comes from
The origin recorded for FORTUNATE.
From Middle English fortunat(e) (“fortunate”), from Latin fortūnātus, from fortūna (“fortune, luck”) + -ātus (adjective-forming suffix), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). See also Middle English fortunaten (“to assure the success (of), make fortunate”); cognate with French fortuné (“lucky”). By surface analysis, fortune + -ate.
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.
FORTUNATES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 120, 17 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 120, 17 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
FORTUNATES starts with F and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEFNORSTTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T appears more than once.
Words that start FORTUN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found FORTUNATES?
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 120 - and most players walked straight past it.
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