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SHOEMAKER
Definition of SHOEMAKER
noun
A person who makes shoes.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English shomaker, equivalent to shoe + maker. Compare Dutch schoenmaker, German Schuhmacher, Danish skomager.
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.
SHOEMAKER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 9 boards so far. 10 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 101, 29 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 32, 21 June 2026.
Built from these letters
SHOEMAKER starts with S and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read AEEHKMORS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Words that start SHOEMA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found SHOEMAKER?
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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.
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