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DEFACTORS
Definition of DEFACTORS
verb
third-person singular simple present indicative of defactor
verb
To modify source code to remove design patterns and structure, for example to make it harder to reverse-engineer.
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Word DNA
DEFACTORS inherits its ancestry from its root, DEFACTOR.
How it is built
Same root, DEFACTOR · 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.
DEFACTORS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 162, 29 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 162, 29 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
DEFACTORS starts with D and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACDEFORST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found DEFACTORS?
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 162 - and most players walked straight past it.
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