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SHTUM
Definition of SHTUM
adjective
Silent; speechless; dumb.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Yiddish שטום (shtum, “mute, dumb, voiceless”), from Middle High German stum, from Old High German stum, from Proto-West Germanic *stumm. Cognate with German stumm, Dutch stom, Swedish stum. Doublet of stum.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
8th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.3%
of traced words share this origin (2,714)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, SHTUM · 2 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Dutch, Swedish.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SHTUM in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 26 boards so far. 32 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 58, 17 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 158, 25 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First found by a player on Day 58, 17 July 2026.
Built from these letters
SHTUM starts with S and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read HMSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
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 SHTUM
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 58
Could you have found SHTUM?
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 58 - and most players walked straight past it.
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