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BRAGGART
Definition of BRAGGART
noun
Someone who constantly brags or boasts.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle French bragard (“bragging, flaunting, vain", also "a showy, arrogant individual”), from braguer (“to boast, brag”). No firm relation to English brag has been established.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Middle French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
13th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
1.1%
of traced words share this origin (334)
branch · 15.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, BRAGGART · 1 relative 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.
BRAGGART in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 138, 5 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BRAGGART starts with B and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AABGGRRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R, A and G appear more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start BRAGGA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found BRAGGART?
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 138 - and most players walked straight past it.
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