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PUBLICAN
Definition of PUBLICAN
noun
The landlord (manager or owner) of a public house (“a bar or tavern, often also selling food and sometimes lodging; a pub”).
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Probably from public house (“(Britain) bar or tavern, often also selling food and sometimes lodging, pub”) or public (“open to all members of a community”) + -an (suffix forming agent nouns), apparently originally used humorously.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, PUBLICAN · 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.
PUBLICAN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 28 boards so far. 89 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 29, 18 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 142, 9 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First found by a player on Day 29, 18 June 2026.
Built from these letters
PUBLICAN starts with P and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ABCILNPU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start PUBLIC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 29
Could you have found PUBLICAN?
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 29 - and most players walked straight past it.
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