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FACILITY
Definition of FACILITY
noun
The physical means or contrivances to make something (especially a public service) possible; the required equipment, infrastructure, location etc.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English facilite, from Middle French facilité, and its source, Latin facilitās. By surface analysis, facile + -ity. Doublet of faculty.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (24,117)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, FACILITY · 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.
FACILITY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 37 boards so far. 64 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 21, 10 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 157, 24 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 23, 12 June 2026.
Built from these letters
FACILITY starts with F and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ACFIILTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that start FACILI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 21
Could you have found FACILITY?
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 21 - and most players walked straight past it.
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