BROAD

Where it comes from

From Middle English brood, brode, from Old English brād (“broad, flat, open, extended, spacious, wide, ample, copious”), from Proto-West Germanic *braid, from Proto-Germanic *braidaz (“broad, wide”), of uncertain origin. Cognate with Yola brode (“broad”), North Frisian bread, breeđ, briad, briid, briidj (“wide”), Saterland Frisian and West Frisian breed (“broad, wide”), Bavarian brad, broad (“broad, wide”), Central Franconian and Luxembourgish breet (“broad, wide”), Dutch breed (“broad, wide”), German breit (“broad, wide”), Vilamovian braat (“broad, wide”), Yiddish ברייט (breyt, “broad, wide”), Danish and Swedish bred (“broad, wide”), Faroese and Icelandic breiður (“broad, wide”), Norwegian Bokmål bred, brei (“broad, wide”), Norwegian Nynorsk brei, breid (“broad, wide”), Gothic 𐌱𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌸𐍃 (braiþs, “broad, wide”).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

BROAD in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 13 boards so far. 18 players have found it across Outlier's history.

It first turned up on Day 24, 13 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 94, 22 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.

First found by a player on Day 24, 13 June 2026.

Built from these letters

BROAD starts with B and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ABDOR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Same letters, different word

5 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start BROAD

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Also seen on Day 24