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BRACH
Definition of BRACH
noun
Originally, a synonym of scent hound (“a hunting dog that tracks prey using its sense of smell rather than by its vision”); later, any female hound; a bitch hound.
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Where it comes from
From Late Middle English brache (“hunting dog, especially a small scent hound; female dog, bitch (?); lapdog (?)”), probably a back-formation from Old French brachès, brachez, the plural of brachet (“female scent hound”), a diminutive of brac, from Old High German braccho, bracco, bracko (“scent hound”) (modern German Bracke); further etymology uncertain, possibly from Proto-Germanic *brēkijaną (compare Latin fragrō (“to emit a smell”), Middle High German bræhen (“to smell (something); to use the sense of smell; to have a (bad) smell”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreHg- (“to have a strong odour, to smell”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BRACH in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 8 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 46, 5 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 115, 12 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 46, 5 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BRACH starts with B and ends with H. Sorted, its letters read ABCHR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start BRACH
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 46
Could you have found BRACH?
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 46 - and most players walked straight past it.
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