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BRAINSTORMS

11 letters

Definition of BRAINSTORMS

noun

plural of brainstorm

BRAINSTORM

verb

To investigate something, or solve a problem using brainstorming.

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Word DNA

BRAINSTORMS inherits its ancestry from its root, BRAINSTORM.

How it is built

nouncompound

Same root, BRAINSTORM · 1 relative in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

BRAINSTORMS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 165
Its one board, across 165 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
140
First board
25
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 25 days.

First ever to find it

dcinwallawalla

on Day 140, 7 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

BRAINSTORMS
11
Letters
3
Vowels
8
Consonants
9
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

BRAINSTORMS starts with B and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ABIMNORRSST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R and S appear more than once.

Words that start BRAINST

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

BRAINSTEMBRAINSTEMSBRAINSTORMBRAINSTORMEDBRAINSTORMERBRAINSTORMERSBRAINSTORMINGBRAINSTORMINGS

Could you have found BRAINSTORMS?

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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