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BRAKIEST
Definition of BRAKIEST
Wiktionary has no entry for BRAKIEST itself. This is its base word, BRAKY.
adjective
Overgrown with bracken or brushwood
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
The origin recorded for BRAKY.
Root of bracken + -y
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BRAKIEST in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 52, 11 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 158, 25 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 52, 11 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BRAKIEST starts with B and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ABEIKRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Also seen on Day 52
Could you have found BRAKIEST?
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 52 - and most players walked straight past it.
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