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FOCALIZING
Definition of FOCALIZING
verb
present participle and gerund of focalize
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Word DNA
FOCALIZING inherits its ancestry from its root, FOCALIZE.
How it is built
Same root, FOCALIZE · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FOCALIZING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 36, 25 June 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 121 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 36, 25 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
FOCALIZING starts with F and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read ACFGIILNOZ - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once. It uses Z - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start FOCALI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 36
Could you have found FOCALIZING?
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 36 - and most players walked straight past it.
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