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BRATS

/bɹæts/5 letters

Definition of BRATS

noun

plural of brat

BRAT

noun

A human child.

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Word DNA

BRATS inherits its ancestry from its root, BRAT.

Line of descent

  1. Irish
  2. Old English
  3. Scots
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Irish

Deepest traced root

23rd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

0.4%

of traced words share this origin (342)

Celtic

branch · 0.7% of traced words

How it is built

noun1 syllable

Same root, BRAT · 6 relatives in the game

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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.

BRATS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 21 boards so far. 29 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 161
Its 21 boards, across 161 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
21
Boards found on
15
First board
157
Latest board
36
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 15, 4 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 157, 24 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.

First found by a player on Day 15, 4 June 2026.

Built from these letters

BRATS
5
Letters
1
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Same letters, different word

2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Could you have found BRATS?

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 15 - and most players walked straight past it.

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