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DEFRAGMENTS
Definition of DEFRAGMENTS
verb
third-person singular simple present indicative of defragment
verb
To run a process that collects fragments of files and sorts them into contiguous sections on one or more hard disks or hard disk partitions, thus speeding up file management.
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Word DNA
DEFRAGMENTS inherits its ancestry from its root, DEFRAGMENT.
How it is built
Same root, DEFRAGMENT · 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.
DEFRAGMENTS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 15 boards so far. 23 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 19, 8 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 143, 10 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 19, 8 June 2026.
Built from these letters
DEFRAGMENTS starts with D and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ADEEFGMNRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Also seen on Day 19
Could you have found DEFRAGMENTS?
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 19 - and most players walked straight past it.
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