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NURSEMAID
Definition of NURSEMAID
noun
A woman or girl employed to care for children.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From nurse + maid.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, NURSEMAID · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
NURSEMAID in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 15 boards so far. 13 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 67, 26 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 152, 19 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 67, 26 July 2026.
Built from these letters
NURSEMAID starts with N and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ADEIMNRSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start NURSEM
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found NURSEMAID?
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 67 - and most players walked straight past it.
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