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AIRBRUSH

8 letters

Definition of AIRBRUSH

noun

A miniature, handheld paint sprayer, powered by compressed air or other gas, used for delicate, artistic painting, or sometimes retouching of photographs.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From air + brush.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

nouncompound

Same root, AIRBRUSH · 3 relatives in the game

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.

AIRBRUSH in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 157
Its one board, across 157 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
140
First board
17
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 17 days.

First ever to find it

suella

on Day 140, 7 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

AIRBRUSH starts with A and ends with H. Sorted, its letters read ABHIRRSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once.

Words that start AIRBRU

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found AIRBRUSH?

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 140 - and most players walked straight past it.

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