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TOMAN

/ˈtʊmən/5 letters

Definition of TOMAN

noun

A division of 10,000 men in the Mongolian army.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Classical Persian تومان (tōman), from Mongolian түмэн (tümen).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

TOMAN in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 120
Its 2 boards, across 120 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
106
First board
112
Latest board
6
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 106, 3 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 112, 9 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.

First ever to find it

merlin

on Day 106, 3 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

TOMAN
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

TOMAN starts with T and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AMNOT - 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 TOMAN

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

TOMANS

Could you have found TOMAN?

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 106 - and most players walked straight past it.

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