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BREW
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).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.3%
of traced words share this origin (11,259)
How it is built
Same root, BREW · 9 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Ancient Greek, Dutch, Irish, Latin, Norwegian, Sanskrit, Swedish.
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
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 18 boards so far. 55 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 28, 17 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 151, 18 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
First found by a player on Day 28, 17 June 2026.
Built from these letters
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.
Also seen on Day 28
Could you have found BREW?
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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