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BREASTPLATE

/ˈbɹɛstˌpleɪt/11 letters

Definition of BREASTPLATE

noun

A piece of armor that covers the chest.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English brestplate, equivalent to breast + plate. Displaced Old English brēostbeorg.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Middle English
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Middle English

Deepest traced root

4th

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

7.6%

of traced words share this origin (2,223)

Germanic

branch · 22.3% of traced words

How it is built

noun2 syllablescompound

Its etymology also names Old English.

Every Middle English word → · 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.

BREASTPLATE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 146
Its one board, across 146 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
138
First board
8
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.

First ever to find it

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on Day 138, 5 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

BREASTPLATE
11
Letters
4
Vowels
7
Consonants
8
Different letters
4
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

BREASTPLATE starts with B and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AABEELPRSTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E, A and T appear more than once.

Words that start BREASTP

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

BREASTPINBREASTPINSBREASTPLATES

Could you have found BREASTPLATE?

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 138 - and most players walked straight past it.

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