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SHOREMEN

8 letters

Definition of SHOREMEN

noun

plural of shoreman

SHOREMAN

noun

A person employed to spread cod on the beach to dry, and to prepare it for curing.

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Word DNA

How it is built

noun

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

SHOREMEN in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 11 boards so far.

Day 1Day 162
Its 11 boards, across 162 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
11
Boards found on
73
First board
158
Latest board
28
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 73, 1 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 158, 25 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.

First ever to find it

drwattson

on Day 73, 1 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

SHOREMEN
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

SHOREMEN starts with S and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read EEHMNORS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.

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 SHOREM

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found SHOREMEN?

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 73 - and most players walked straight past it.

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