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FEATURE
Definition of FEATURE
noun
One's structure or make-up: form, shape, bodily proportions.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English feture, from Anglo-Norman feture, from Old French faiture, from Latin factūra, from Latin factus, from Latin faciō (“do, make”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to do, put, place, set”). Doublet of facture.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
5 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.3%
of traced words share this origin (11,293)
How it is built
Same root, FEATURE · 5 relatives in the game
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FEATURE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 19 boards so far. 17 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First found by a player on Day 25, 14 June 2026.
Built from these letters
FEATURE starts with F and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEEFRTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Words that start FEATUR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 8
Could you have found FEATURE?
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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.
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