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INFORM
Definition of INFORM
verb
To instruct, train (usually in matters of knowledge).
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Where it comes from
From Middle English informen, enformen, borrowed from Old French enformer, informer (“to train, instruct, inform”), from Latin īnfōrmō (“to shape, form, train, instruct, educate”), from in- (“into”) + fōrma (“form, shape”), equivalent to in- + form.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 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, INFORM · 2 relatives 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.
INFORM in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 48, 7 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 48, 7 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
INFORM starts with I and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read FIMNOR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start INFORM
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 48
Could you have found INFORM?
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 48 - and most players walked straight past it.
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