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BREECHBLOCKS

12 letters

Definition of BREECHBLOCKS

noun

plural of breechblock

BREECHBLOCK

noun

The metal block that closes the breech of a breech-loading gun after insertion of the cartridge.

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Word DNA

BREECHBLOCKS inherits its ancestry from its root, BREECHBLOCK.

How it is built

nouncompound

Same root, BREECHBLOCK · 1 relative in the game

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
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.

BREECHBLOCKS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

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Its one board, across 169 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
153
First board
16
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 153, 20 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 16 days.

First ever to find it

albandp

on Day 153, 20 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

BREECHBLOCKS
12
Letters
3
Vowels
9
Consonants
9
Different letters
4
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

BREECHBLOCKS starts with B and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read BBCCEEHKLORS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. B, E and C appear more than once, including a double letter.

Words that start BREECHBL

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found BREECHBLOCKS?

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 153 - and most players walked straight past it.

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