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BRAIL

/bɹeɪl/5 letters

Definition of BRAIL

noun

A small rope used to truss up sails.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English brayle, from Old French braiel, from Medieval Latin bracale (“girdle”) (from bracae (“breeches”)).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

BRAIL in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 25 boards so far. 44 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 96
Its 25 boards, across 96 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
25
Boards found on
13
First board
94
Latest board
15
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 13, 2 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 94, 22 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First found by a player on Day 13, 2 June 2026.

Built from these letters

BRAIL
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

BRAIL starts with B and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read ABILR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start BRAIL

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

BRAILSBRAILEDBRAILLEBRAILINGBRAILLEDBRAILLERBRAILLESBRAILLERSBRAILLINGBRAILLISTBRAILLISTSBRAILLEWRITER

Could you have found BRAIL?

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 13 - and most players walked straight past it.

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