Factory
7 lettersnouncommonUpdated June 2026
Definition
A building or group of buildings where goods are manufactured or assembled using machinery and labour. Factories represent centres of industrial production and manufacturing operations.
“The car factory employs over two thousand workers and produces five hundred vehicles daily.”
Pronunciation
IPA
/ˈfæktəri/
Syllables
fac·to·ry
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Wordle
Contains FAC- opening with three vowels (A, O, Y); watch for -TORY ending
Scrabble
Worth 15 points; the F (4 points), C (3 points), and Y (4 points) provide excellent scoring
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