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POTMAN
Definition of POTMAN
noun
A man employed in a public house to collect empty pots or glasses; a waiter in a similar establishment.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From pot + -man.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, POT · 11 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.
POTMAN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 77, 5 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 21 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 77, 5 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
POTMAN starts with P and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AMNOPT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found POTMAN?
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 77 - and most players walked straight past it.
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