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HANDICRAFTSMEN
Definition of HANDICRAFTSMEN
noun
plural of handicraftsman
HANDICRAFTSMAN
noun
A practitioner of a handicraft, usually male.
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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.
HANDICRAFTSMEN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 145, 12 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 145, 12 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HANDICRAFTSMEN starts with H and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AACDEFHIMNNRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and N appear more than once.
Words that start HANDICRAFT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found HANDICRAFTSMEN?
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 145 - and most players walked straight past it.
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