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BREME

/bɹiːm/5 letters

Definition of BREME

adjective

Of the sea, wind, etc.: fierce; raging; stormy, tempestuous.

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Where it comes from

From Middle English brem, breme, from Old English brēme (“famous, glorious, noble”), from Proto-West Germanic *brōmi, from Proto-Germanic *brōmiz (“famous”). Cognate with Latin fremō (“to murmur; to roar”), Ancient Greek βρέμω (brémō, “to roar”), Polish brzmieć (“to be heard”).

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Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Germanic
  2. Old English
  3. Middle English
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Germanic

Deepest traced root

6th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

4.7%

of traced words share this origin (3,888)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

adjective1 syllable

Its etymology also names Ancient Greek, Latin, Polish.

Every Proto-Germanic word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
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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.

BREME in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 7 boards so far.

Day 1Day 165
Its 7 boards, across 165 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
7
Boards found on
26
First board
153
Latest board
29
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 26, 15 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 153, 20 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.

First ever to find it

143words

on Day 26, 15 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Also on

Built from these letters

BREME
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

BREME starts with B and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read BEEMR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.

Same letters, different word

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

Could you have found BREME?

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 26 - and most players walked straight past it.

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