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BRIDINGS
Definition of BRIDINGS
Wiktionary has no entry for BRIDINGS itself. This is its base word, BRIDE.
noun
A woman in the context of her own wedding; one who is going to marry or has just been married.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
The origin recorded for BRIDE.
From Middle English bride, from Old English brȳd (“bride”), from Proto-West Germanic *brūdi, from Proto-Germanic *brūdiz (“bride”). Cognate with Yola breede (“bride”), Saterland Frisian Bräid (“bride”), Alemannic German Bruut (“bride”), Central Franconian Brock, Brutt, Bruut (“bride”), Dutch bruid (“bride”), German and Luxembourgish Braut (“bride”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish brud (“bride”), Faroese and Icelandic brúður (“bride”), Norwegian Nynorsk brud, brur (“bride”), Gothic 𐌱𐍂𐌿𐌸𐍃 (bruþs, “bride”), French bru (“daughter-in-law”), Friulian brût (“daughter-in-law”) (from Old High German brut (“bride”)).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
6th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
4.8%
of traced words share this origin (4,064)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Its etymology also names Danish, Dutch, French, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BRIDINGS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 174, 10 November 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 174, 10 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BRIDINGS starts with B and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read BDGIINRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found BRIDINGS?
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 174 - and most players walked straight past it.
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