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FACTIONARY
Definition of FACTIONARY
adjective
Belonging to a faction; partisan; taking sides.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Compare French factionnaire, Latin factionarius (“the head of a company of charioteers”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
33%
of traced words share this origin (9,764)
branch · 33% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FACTIONARY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 81, 9 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 143, 10 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 81, 9 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
FACTIONARY starts with F and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AACFINORTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start FACTIO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found FACTIONARY?
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 81 - and most players walked straight past it.
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