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HUSBANDMEN

10 letters

Definition of HUSBANDMEN

noun

plural of husbandman

HUSBANDMAN

noun

a person who raises crops and tends animals; a farmer

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Word DNA

HUSBANDMEN inherits its ancestry from its root, HUSBANDMAN.

Line of descent

  1. Middle English
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Middle English

Deepest traced root

4th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

6.2%

of traced words share this origin (5,116)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound-man

Same root, HUSBANDMAN · 1 relative in the game

HUSBANDMAN

Every Middle English word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

HUSBANDMEN in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 168
Its one board, across 168 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
166
First board
2
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 166, 2 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

hester

on Day 166, 2 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

HUSBANDMEN
10
Letters
3
Vowels
7
Consonants
9
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start HUSBAN

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

HUSBANDHUSBANDSHUSBANDEDHUSBANDERHUSBANDLYHUSBANDRYHUSBANDAGEHUSBANDERSHUSBANDINGHUSBANDMANHUSBANDAGESHUSBANDLAND

Could you have found HUSBANDMEN?

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 166 - and most players walked straight past it.

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