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BRIMSTONE
Definition of BRIMSTONE
noun
The sulfur of hell; hell, damnation.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English brymston, brimston, bremston, forms of brinston, brenston, bernston, from Old English brynstān (“brimstone”, literally “burn-stone”), equivalent to burn + stone. Cognate with Scots brunstane (“brimstone”), Icelandic brennisteinn (“sulfur / sulphur, brimstone”), German Bernstein (“amber”). Compare also brimfire. More at burn, stone. Although once a synonym for sulfur, the word is now largely restricted to poetic and Biblical usage.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Old English
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
6th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
4.1%
of traced words share this origin (1,218)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, BRIMSTONE · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names German, Icelandic, Scots.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BRIMSTONE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 44 boards so far. 111 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 21, 10 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 148, 15 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 26, 15 June 2026.
Built from these letters
BRIMSTONE starts with B and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read BEIMNORST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start BRIMST
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 21
Could you have found BRIMSTONE?
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 21 - and most players walked straight past it.
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