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BREE

/bɹiː/4 letters

Definition of BREE

noun

The eyelid.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English brewe, bre, bregh, from Old English brēġ (“eyelid”) (Anglian dialect). Compare West Saxon brǣw, brēaw, brēaġ (“eyelid”), from Proto-Germanic *brēwō. Cognate with Dutch (wenk)brauw, German Braue. Compare brae from the same source. Apparently related to brow.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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Tier
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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.

BREE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 4 boards so far.

Day 1Day 109
Its 4 boards, across 109 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
4
Boards found on
37
First board
100
Latest board
26
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 37, 26 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 100, 28 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.

First found by a player on Day 37, 26 June 2026.

Built from these letters

BREE
4
Letters
2
Vowels
2
Consonants
3
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

BREE starts with B and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read BEER - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once, including a double letter.

Same letters, different word

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

Words that start BREE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

BREEDBREEMBREERBREESBREECHBREEDSBREEKSBREERSBREESEBREESTBREEZEBREEZY

Could you have found BREE?

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 37 - and most players walked straight past it.

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