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DUSTMAN
Definition of DUSTMAN
noun
A person employed to collect refuse from people's homes and take it to be processed.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From dust + -man, as household refuse previously consisted largely of ashes (dust) from domestic fires.
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.
DUSTMAN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 90, 18 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 97, 25 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 14 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 90, 18 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
DUSTMAN starts with D and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ADMNSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found DUSTMAN?
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 90 - and most players walked straight past it.
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