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FACTOTUM

/fækˈtəʊ.təm/8 letters

Definition of FACTOTUM

noun

A person employed to perform all sorts of duties.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Ellipsis of domine fac totum, dominus fac totum / dominus factotum (“absolute ruler; head servant”), from Medieval Latin domine fac tōtum (“O Lord, do everything”), also with substition of nominative dominus for vocative domine.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

FACTOTUM in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 111
Its one board, across 111 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
106
First board
5
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 106, 3 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.

First ever to find it

normdeplume

on Day 106, 3 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

FACTOTUM
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

FACTOTUM starts with F and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read ACFMOTTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T appears more than once.

Words that start FACTOT

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

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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 106 - and most players walked straight past it.

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