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FACTORIZING
Definition of FACTORIZING
verb
present participle and gerund of factorize
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Word DNA
FACTORIZING inherits its ancestry from its root, FACTORIZE.
How it is built
Same root, FACTORIZE · 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.
FACTORIZING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 176, 12 November 2026. The most recent board was Day 177, 13 November 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 176, 12 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
FACTORIZING starts with F and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read ACFGIINORTZ - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once. It uses Z - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start FACTORI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found FACTORIZING?
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 176 - and most players walked straight past it.
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