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HEADSWOMAN

10 letters

Definition of HEADSWOMAN

noun

A female headsman; a female executioner that carries out executions by decapitation.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From head + -s- + -woman.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

nouncompound-woman

Same root, HEAD · 14 relatives in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

HEADSWOMAN in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 173
Its one board, across 173 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
165
First board
8
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 165, 1 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.

First ever to find it

rawordhoundContributor

on Day 165, 1 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

HEADSWOMAN
10
Letters
4
Vowels
6
Consonants
9
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

HEADSWOMAN starts with H and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AADEHMNOSW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.

Words that start HEADSW

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found HEADSWOMAN?

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 165 - and most players walked straight past it.

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