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SHANTEY
Definition of SHANTEY
noun
Alternative form of shanty (“sailor's work song”).
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SHANTEY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 59, 18 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 51 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 59, 18 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SHANTEY starts with S and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AEHNSTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start SHANTE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 59
Could you have found SHANTEY?
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 59 - and most players walked straight past it.
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