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BRAZE
Definition of BRAZE
verb
To cover with brass, or as with brass.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English brasen, from Old English brasian, bræsian (“to cover with brass”), from bræs (“brass”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BRAZE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 36, 25 June 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 66 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 36, 25 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BRAZE starts with B and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ABERZ - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses Z - among the least common letters in written English.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start BRAZE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 36
Could you have found BRAZE?
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 36 - and most players walked straight past it.
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