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BRICK
Definition of BRICK
noun
A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building.
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Where it comes from
From Late Middle English brik, bryke, bricke, from Middle Low German and Middle Dutch bricke ("cracked or broken brick; tile-stone"; modern Dutch brik), ultimately related to Proto-West Germanic *brekan (“to break”), whence also Old French briche and French brique (“brick”). Compare also German Low German Brickje (“small board, tray”). Related to break. The social media slang sense derives from memes about building up one's feed “brick by brick”, analogizing bricks with reels that inform the algorithm. The sense of a helpful, reliable person comes from Lycurgus referring to the army as the walls of Sparta, every man a brick.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BRICK in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 11 boards so far. 27 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 122, 19 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
BRICK starts with B and ends with K. Sorted, its letters read BCIKR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start BRICK
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found BRICK?
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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