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FILATORY
Definition of FILATORY
noun
A machine for forming threads.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Latin filatorium (“place for spinning”), from filare (“to spin”), from filum (“a thread”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FILATORY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 37, 26 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 115, 12 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 115, 12 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
FILATORY starts with F and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AFILORTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 37
Could you have found FILATORY?
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 37 - and most players walked straight past it.
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