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SHANTYMEN
Definition of SHANTYMEN
noun
plural of shantyman
SHANTYMAN
noun
The sailor who sings the main line of a sea shanty (the other sailors singing the responses or choruses)
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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.
SHANTYMEN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 140, 7 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SHANTYMEN starts with S and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AEHMNNSTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N appears more than once.
Words that start SHANTY
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SHANTYMEN?
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 140 - and most players walked straight past it.
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