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FIREWOMAN
Definition of FIREWOMAN
noun
A female firefighter.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From fire + -woman.
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.
FIREWOMAN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 39 boards so far. 57 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 38, 27 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 148, 15 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 38, 27 June 2026.
Built from these letters
FIREWOMAN starts with F and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AEFIMNORW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start FIREWO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 38
Could you have found FIREWOMAN?
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 38 - and most players walked straight past it.
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