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SHRAM
Definition of SHRAM
verb
To cause to shrink or shrivel with cold; to numb.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Compare shrink.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
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.
SHRAM in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 143, 10 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 17 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 143, 10 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SHRAM starts with S and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read AHMRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found SHRAM?
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 143 - and most players walked straight past it.
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