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DURAMENS
Definition of DURAMENS
Wiktionary has no entry for DURAMENS itself. This is its base word, DURAMEN.
noun
heartwood
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
The origin recorded for DURAMEN.
Borrowed from Latin dūrāmen.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
DURAMENS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 58, 17 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 91, 19 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.
First found by a player on Day 58, 17 July 2026.
Built from these letters
DURAMENS starts with D and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ADEMNRSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Also seen on Day 58
Could you have found DURAMENS?
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 58 - and most players walked straight past it.
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