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LONGSHOREMAN
Definition of LONGSHOREMAN
noun
A man employed to load and unload ships; any person thus employed.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From alongshoreman, from alongshore + -man.
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.
LONGSHOREMAN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 145, 12 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 19 days.
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
LONGSHOREMAN starts with L and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AEGHLMNNOORS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O and N appear more than once.
Words that start LONGSHOR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found LONGSHOREMAN?
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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