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BRINY
Definition of BRINY
adjective
Of, relating to, resembling, or containing brine (“water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt”), such as seawater or tears; salty.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
The adjective is from brine (noun) + -y (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘having the quality of’). The noun is from the adjective.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BRINY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 41 boards so far. 116 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 26, 15 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 162, 29 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 26, 15 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BRINY starts with B and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read BINRY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 26
Could you have found BRINY?
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 26 - and most players walked straight past it.
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