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DALESMAN
Definition of DALESMAN
noun
A person from the Yorkshire Dales, or sometimes a person from Lakeland.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From dale + -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.
DALESMAN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 93, 21 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 44 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 102, 30 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
DALESMAN starts with D and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AADELMNS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A 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.
Could you have found DALESMAN?
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 93 - and most players walked straight past it.
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