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FACINERIOUS
About FACINERIOUS
FACINERIOUS is a valid 11-letter word in OUTLIER, and one of the few with no English entry in Wiktionary - the dictionary a word game accepts is wider than the one an encyclopaedia keeps.
No definition is on file, so none is guessed at here.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FACINERIOUS in OUTLIER
It has fitted 37 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 4, 25 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 59, 18 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 82 days.
First found by a player on Day 96, 24 August 2026.
Built from these letters
FACINERIOUS starts with F and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACEFIINORSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Also seen on Day 4
Could you have found FACINERIOUS?
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 4 - and most players walked straight past it.
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