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FORMULIZE
Definition of FORMULIZE
verb
To reduce to a formula; to formularize.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From formula + -ize.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, FORMULA · 11 relatives 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.
FORMULIZE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 177, 13 November 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 177, 13 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
FORMULIZE starts with F and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EFILMORUZ - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses Z - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start FORMUL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found FORMULIZE?
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 177 - and most players walked straight past it.
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