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FOUR
Definition of FOUR
noun
NATO & ICAO radiotelephony clear code (spelling-alphabet name) for the digit 4.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English four, from Old English fēower, from Proto-West Germanic *feuwar, from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr, from previous pre-Grimm *petwṓr, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwṓr, the neuter form of *kʷetwóres. Doublet of cuatro and quatre. Cognates include Scots fower, Saterland Frisian fjauer, West Frisian fjouwer, Dutch vier, German Low German veer, German vier, Norwegian Bokmål and Danish fire, Swedish fyra, Gothic 𐍆𐌹𐌳𐍅𐍉𐍂 (fidwōr) and, more distantly, Latin quattuor (whence Spanish cuatro, French quatre), Ancient Greek τέσσαρες (téssares), Irish ceathair, Welsh pedwar, Armenian չորս (čʻors), Lithuanian keturi, Albanian katër, Sanskrit चतुर् (catur).
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Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.2%
of traced words share this origin (12,281)
How it is built
Same root, FOUR · 7 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Ancient Greek, Danish, Dutch, French, Irish, Latin, Norwegian, Sanskrit and 4 more.
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FOUR in OUTLIER
It has fitted 1 board so far. 25 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 153, 20 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 24 days.
First found by a player on Day 33, 22 June 2026.
Built from these letters
FOUR starts with F and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read FORU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start FOUR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found FOUR?
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