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INERT
Definition of INERT
adjective
Unable to move or act; inanimate.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From French inerte, from Latin iners (“inactive, inert”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,711)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, INERT · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
INERT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 35 boards so far. 49 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 29, 18 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 148, 15 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 29, 18 June 2026.
Built from these letters
INERT starts with I and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read EINRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
4 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start INERT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found INERT?
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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