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FOUNDRY
Definition of FOUNDRY
noun
A facility that melts metals in special furnaces and pours the molten metal into molds to make products. Foundries are usually specified according to the type of metal dealt with: iron foundry, brass foundry, etc.
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Where it comes from
From French fonderie. By surface analysis, found (“to melt (metals)”) + -ry (“place; process”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
5th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
7.2%
of traced words share this origin (2,103)
branch · 15.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, FOUNDRY · 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.
FOUNDRY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 61 boards so far. 378 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 24, 13 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 24, 13 June 2026.
Built from these letters
FOUNDRY starts with F and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read DFNORUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start FOUNDR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 24
Could you have found FOUNDRY?
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 24 - and most players walked straight past it.
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