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BRAYING
Definition of BRAYING
verb
present participle and gerund of bray
verb
Of an animal (now chiefly of animals related to the ass or donkey, and the camel): to make its cry.
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Word DNA
BRAYING inherits its ancestry from its root, BRAY.
Line of descent
6 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.3%
of traced words share this origin (993)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, BRAY · 4 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BRAYING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 28 boards so far. 76 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 33, 22 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First found by a player on Day 33, 22 June 2026.
Built from these letters
BRAYING starts with B and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read ABGINRY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 33
Could you have found BRAYING?
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 33 - and most players walked straight past it.
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