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FRACTURE
Definition of FRACTURE
noun
An instance of breaking, a place where something has broken.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English fracture, from Old French fracture, from Latin frāctūra (“a breach, fracture, cleft”), from frangere (“to break”), past participle frāctus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg-, whence also English break. See fraction. Doublet of fraktur.
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.
FRACTURE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 90, 18 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 90, 18 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
FRACTURE starts with F and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ACEFRRTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once.
Words that start FRACTU
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found FRACTURE?
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 90 - and most players walked straight past it.
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