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BRINDLES

8 letters

Definition of BRINDLES

noun

plural of brindle

BRINDLE

noun

A streaky colouration in animals.

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Another sense

BRINDLES carries a second meaning.

  1. noun

    Plural form of brindle.

Word DNA

BRINDLES inherits its ancestry from its root, BRINDLE.

How it is built

nouncompound-ed

Same root, BRINDLE · 1 relative in the game

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

BRINDLES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 49 boards so far. 113 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 143
Its 49 boards, across 143 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
49
Boards found on
12
First board
142
Latest board
14
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 12, 1 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 142, 9 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

sturbledon

on Day 12, 1 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

BRINDLES
8
Letters
2
Vowels
6
Consonants
8
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

BRINDLES starts with B and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read BDEILNRS - 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.

Words that start BRINDL

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

BRINDLEBRINDLED

Could you have found BRINDLES?

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 12 - and most players walked straight past it.

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