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BRISKS

/bɹɪsks/6 letters

Definition of BRISKS

verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of brisk

BRISK

adjective

Full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action.

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Word DNA

BRISKS inherits its ancestry from its root, BRISK.

Line of descent

  1. Welsh
  2. Scottish Gaelic
  3. Irish
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Welsh

Deepest traced root

35th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

0.2%

of traced words share this origin (138)

Celtic

branch · 0.7% of traced words

How it is built

verb1 syllable

Same root, BRISK · 9 relatives in the game

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Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

BRISKS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 161
Its one board, across 161 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
153
First board
8
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 153, 20 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.

First ever to find it

whosbettathanus

on Day 153, 20 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

BRISKS
6
Letters
1
Vowels
5
Consonants
5
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

BRISKS starts with B and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read BIKRSS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S appears more than once.

Could you have found BRISKS?

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 153 - and most players walked straight past it.

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