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BRACKENY
Definition of BRACKENY
adjective
Covered in bracken.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From bracken + -y.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, BRACKEN · 3 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BRACKENY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 172, 8 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 140, 7 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BRACKENY starts with B and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ABCEKNRY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start BRACKE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found BRACKENY?
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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