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POACHER
Definition of POACHER
noun
A person who trespasses in order to take game illegally, one who poaches; a person who illegally takes animals or plants from the wild.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From poach + -er.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, POACH · 6 relatives 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.
POACHER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 17 boards so far. 17 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 35, 24 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 163, 30 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 35, 24 June 2026.
Built from these letters
POACHER starts with P and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read ACEHOPR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start POACHE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 35
Could you have found POACHER?
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 35 - and most players walked straight past it.
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