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BOATSMAN

8 letters

About BOATSMAN

BOATSMAN is a valid 8-letter word in OUTLIER, and one of the few with no English entry in Wiktionary - the dictionary a word game accepts is wider than the one an encyclopaedia keeps.

No definition is on file, so none is guessed at here.

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

BOATSMAN in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 98
Its one board, across 98 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
37
First board
61
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 37, 26 June 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 61 days.

First ever to find it

adamhowsare

on Day 37, 26 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

BOATSMAN
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

BOATSMAN starts with B and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AABMNOST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.

Words that start BOATSM

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found BOATSMAN?

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 37 - and most players walked straight past it.

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