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BREW

/bɹuː/4 letters

Definition of BREW

verb

To make tea or coffee by mixing tea leaves or coffee beans with hot water.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English brewen, from Old English brēowan, from Proto-West Germanic *breuwan, from Proto-Germanic *brewwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁-. Doublet of burn. Cognate with Dutch brouwen, German brauen, Swedish brygga, Norwegian Bokmål brygge; also Ancient Greek φρέαρ (phréar, “well”), Latin fervēre (“to be hot; to burn; to boil”), Old Irish bruth (“violent, boiling heat”), Sanskrit भुर्वन् (bhurván, “motion of water”). It may be related to English barley.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

BREW in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 12 boards so far. 48 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 109
Its 12 boards, across 109 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
12
Boards found on
28
First board
85
Latest board
21
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 28, 17 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 85, 13 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 24 days.

First found by a player on Day 28, 17 June 2026.

Built from these letters

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

BREW starts with B and ends with W. Sorted, its letters read BERW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start BREW

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

BREWSBREWEDBREWERBREWISBREWAGEBREWERSBREWERYBREWINGBREWPUBBREWSKIBREWAGESBREWINGS

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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 28 - and most players walked straight past it.

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