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URGENT
Definition of URGENT
adjective
Requiring immediate attention.
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Where it comes from
Borrowed from Middle French urgent (“pressing, impelling”), from Latin urgēns, from urgēre (“to press”), from Proto-Indo-European *werǵʰ- (“bind, squeeze”). Equivalent to urge + -ent. Related to German würgen (“to strangle”), Lithuanian ver̃žti (“to string, tighten, constrict”), Russian (poetic) отверза́ть (otverzátʹ, “to open”, literally “to untie”), Polish otwierać (“to open”)) and English worry, wring, wreak, wreck.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.2%
of traced words share this origin (11,575)
How it is built
Same root, URGENT · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names German, Polish, Russian.
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
URGENT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 22 boards so far. 24 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 24, 13 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.
First found by a player on Day 24, 13 June 2026.
Built from these letters
URGENT starts with U and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read EGNRTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Also seen on Day 24
Could you have found URGENT?
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 24 - and most players walked straight past it.
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