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FICTION
Definition of FICTION
noun
Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English ficcioun, from Old French ficcion (“dissimulation, ruse, invention”), from Latin fictiō (“a making, fashioning, a feigning, a rhetorical or legal fiction”), from fingō (“to form, mold, shape, devise, feign”). Displaced native Old English lēasspell (literally “false story”); see feign, feint, figment.
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FICTION in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 17 boards so far. 27 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
FICTION starts with F and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read CFIINOT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that start FICTIO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found FICTION?
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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.
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