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FACTOR
Definition of FACTOR
noun
A doer, maker; a person who does things for another person or organization.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Inherited from Middle English factour, from Middle French facteur, Anglo-Norman factour, and their etymon Latin factor (“a doer, maker, performer”), from factus (“done or made”), perfect passive participle of faciō (“do, make”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33%
of traced words share this origin (9,457)
branch · 33% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, FACTOR · 3 relatives 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.
FACTOR in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 8 boards so far. 20 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 21, 10 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 125, 22 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 16 days.
First found by a player on Day 21, 10 June 2026.
Built from these letters
FACTOR starts with F and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read ACFORT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start FACTOR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 21
Could you have found FACTOR?
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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