Headman
7 lettersnounrareUpdated June 2026
Definition
A person appointed or designated to carry out executions by beheading the condemned.
“The headman stood ready on the scaffold as the condemned prisoner was led forward.”
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head·man
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Wordle
H-E-A-D with -MAN ending, all common Wordle letters, no rare letters but a recognisable compound
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Scrabble
All common letters, HEAD and MAN are both short words combined here, moderate total points
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