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FACULTY
Definition 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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Where it comes from
From Middle English faculte (“power, property”), from Old French faculte, from Latin facultas (“capability, ability, skill, abundance, plenty, stock, goods, property; in Medieval Latin also a body of teachers”), another form of facilitas (“easiness, facility, etc.”), from facul, another form of facilis (“easy, facile”); see facile. Doublet of facility.
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Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (23,951)
branch · 30.7% 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.
FACULTY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 21 boards so far. 51 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 21, 10 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 136, 3 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 20 days.
First found by a player on Day 21, 10 June 2026.
Built from these letters
FACULTY starts with F and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ACFLTUY - 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 FACULTY?
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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