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SHERWANI
Definition of SHERWANI
noun
A knee-length coat that buttons to the neck, worn by men in parts of India and Pakistan.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Urdu شیروانی (śervānī)/Hindi शेरवानी (śervānī), from the name of a town in Persia.
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.
SHERWANI in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 55, 14 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 73, 1 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 49 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 55, 14 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SHERWANI starts with S and ends with I. Sorted, its letters read AEHINRSW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start SHERWA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 55
Could you have found SHERWANI?
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 55 - and most players walked straight past it.
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