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BRAKESMAN
Definition of BRAKESMAN
noun
Someone who operates the winch in a mine.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From brake + -s- + -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.
BRAKESMAN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 122, 19 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
Built from these letters
BRAKESMAN starts with B and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AABEKMNRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Could you have found BRAKESMAN?
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 122 - and most players walked straight past it.
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