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BLUESMAN
Definition of BLUESMAN
noun
a male blues musician
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From blues + man.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BLUESMAN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 144, 11 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 144, 11 October 2026.
Built from these letters
BLUESMAN starts with B and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ABELMNSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start BLUESM
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found BLUESMAN?
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 144 - and most players walked straight past it.
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