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FACTURE
Definition of FACTURE
noun
The act or manner of making or doing anything, especially of a literary, musical, or pictorial production.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From French facture (“a making, invoice”), from Latin factura (“a making”). Doublet of feature. See fact.
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
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (23,981)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, FACTURE · 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.
FACTURE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 9 boards so far. 10 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 46, 5 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 46, 5 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
FACTURE starts with F and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ACEFRTU - 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.
Also seen on Day 46
Could you have found FACTURE?
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 46 - and most players walked straight past it.
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