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BRIMSTONE

/ˈbɹɪmstəʊn/9 letters

Definition of BRIMSTONE

noun

The sulfur of hell; hell, damnation.

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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).

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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.

BRIMSTONE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 24 boards so far. 50 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 97
Its 24 boards, across 97 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
24
Boards found on
21
First board
97
Latest board
8
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 21, 10 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 97, 25 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First found by a player on Day 26, 15 June 2026.

Built from these letters

BRIMSTONE
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
9
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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.

BRIMSTONYBRIMSTONES

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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 21 - and most players walked straight past it.

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