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FOCALITY

8 letters

Definition of FOCALITY

noun

The quality of being focal.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From focal + -ity.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

nouncompound-ity

Same root, FOCAL · 12 relatives in the game

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.

FOCALITY in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 5 boards so far.

Day 1Day 170
Its 5 boards, across 170 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
5
Boards found on
159
First board
165
Latest board
2
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 159, 26 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 165, 1 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.

First ever to find it

rekenner

on Day 159, 26 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

FOCALITY
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

FOCALITY starts with F and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ACFILOTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start FOCALI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found FOCALITY?

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 159 - and most players walked straight past it.

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