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COLOURMAN
Definition of COLOURMAN
noun
A man who sells (and, formerly, prepares) an artist's paints.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From colour + -man.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, COLOR · 50 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
COLOURMAN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 92 days.
Built from these letters
COLOURMAN starts with C and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ACLMNOORU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
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 COLOUR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found COLOURMAN?
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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.
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