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BRAILLED

/ˈbɹeɪld/8 letters

Definition of BRAILLED

verb

simple past and past participle of braille

BRAILLE

noun

A system of writing in which letters and some combinations of letters are represented by raised dots arranged in three or four rows of two dots each and are read by the blind and partially sighted using the fingertips.

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Word DNA

BRAILLED inherits its ancestry from its root, BRAILLE.

Line of descent

  1. French
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

French

Deepest traced root

5th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

5.3%

of traced words share this origin (4,269)

Romance

branch · 12.8% of traced words

How it is built

verb1 syllable

Same root, BRAILLE · 2 relatives in the game

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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.

BRAILLED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 161
Its one board, across 161 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
137
First board
24
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 137, 4 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 24 days.

First ever to find it

badhedgehog

on Day 137, 4 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

BRAILLED starts with B and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ABDEILLR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. L appears more than once, including a double letter.

Words that start BRAILL

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

BRAILLEBRAILLERBRAILLESBRAILLERSBRAILLINGBRAILLISTBRAILLISTSBRAILLEWRITERBRAILLEWRITERS

Could you have found BRAILLED?

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 137 - and most players walked straight past it.

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