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MANHANDLE

/ˈmænˌhæn.dəl/9 letters

Definition of MANHANDLE

verb

To move something heavy by force of men, without aid of levers, pulleys, machine, or tackles.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English manne-handlen, man handelen, equivalent to man (“male person”) + handle.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

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

verb3 syllablescompound

Same root, MANHANDLE · 2 relatives in the game

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

Rarity score
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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.

MANHANDLE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 167
Its one board, across 167 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
154
First board
13
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.

First ever to find it

hey_leo

on Day 154, 21 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

MANHANDLE
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
7
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

MANHANDLE starts with M and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AADEHLMNN - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and N appear more than once.

Words that start MANHAN

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

MANHANDLEDMANHANDLERMANHANDLESMANHANDLING

Could you have found MANHANDLE?

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 154 - and most players walked straight past it.

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