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SCHIEDAM
Definition of SCHIEDAM
noun
Gin produced in Schiedam, a southern municipality of the Netherlands.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Short for Schiedam schnapps.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SCHIEDAM in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 141, 8 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 21 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 141, 8 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SCHIEDAM starts with S and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read ACDEHIMS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start SCHIED
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SCHIEDAM?
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 141 - and most players walked straight past it.
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