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FACULTIES
Definition of FACULTIES
noun
plural of faculty
noun
The academic staff at schools, colleges, universities or not-for-profit research institutes, as opposed to the students or support staff.
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Word DNA
FACULTIES inherits its ancestry from its root, FACULTY.
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.6%
of traced words share this origin (24,817)
branch · 30.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, FACULTY · 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.
FACULTIES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 38 boards so far. 68 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 21, 10 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 159, 26 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First found by a player on Day 21, 10 June 2026.
Built from these letters
FACULTIES starts with F and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACEFILSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start FACULT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 21
Could you have found FACULTIES?
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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