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BREVITY
Definition of BREVITY
noun
The quality of being brief in duration.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
First attested in English in 1509; either: By surface analysis, brief + -ity.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, BREVITY · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BREVITY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 56 boards so far. 408 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
BREVITY starts with B and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read BEIRTVY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found BREVITY?
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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.
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