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BEAUTICIAN
Definition of BEAUTICIAN
noun
Someone who does hair styling, manicures, and other beauty treatments.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Blend of beauty + technician, originally coined in Cleveland, Ohio, c. 1920s.
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.
BEAUTICIAN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far. 12 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 27, 16 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 84, 12 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 27, 16 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Also on
Built from these letters
BEAUTICIAN starts with B and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AABCEIINTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and I appear more than once.
Words that start BEAUTI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 27
Could you have found BEAUTICIAN?
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 27 - and most players walked straight past it.
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