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SHAMATEUR
Definition of SHAMATEUR
noun
A sportsman or athlete who is officially an amateur but who makes money from playing, or who otherwise behaves as a professional.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From sham + amateur.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SHAMATEUR in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 24, 13 June 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 85 days.
First found by a player on Day 24, 13 June 2026.
Built from these letters
SHAMATEUR starts with S and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read AAEHMRSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start SHAMAT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 24
Could you have found SHAMATEUR?
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 24 - and most players walked straight past it.
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