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BRINDLE
Definition of BRINDLE
noun
A streaky colouration in animals.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Back-formation from brindled, a variant of brinded (“streaked, spotted”), apparently reanalyzed as brindle + -ed. Attested from the late seventeenth century.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, BRINDLE · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BRINDLE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 60 boards so far. 205 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 22, 11 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 144, 11 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 22, 11 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BRINDLE starts with B and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read BDEILNR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Also seen on Day 22
Could you have found BRINDLE?
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 22 - and most players walked straight past it.
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