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FAGACEOUS

9 letters

Definition of FAGACEOUS

adjective

Of the family Fagaceae of beeches and similar trees.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Fagaceae + -ous

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

adjectivecompound-ous

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

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

FAGACEOUS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 6 boards so far.

Day 1Day 166
Its 6 boards, across 166 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
6
Boards found on
88
First board
163
Latest board
25
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 88, 16 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 163, 30 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First ever to find it

la_lentille

on Day 88, 16 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

FAGACEOUS
9
Letters
5
Vowels
4
Consonants
8
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
3
Longest vowel run

FAGACEOUS starts with F and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AACEFGOSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.

Could you have found FAGACEOUS?

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 88 - and most players walked straight past it.

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