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BROUGH
Definition of BROUGH
noun
A halo or luminous disk or ring seen around the sun or moon, and in folklore considered to portend a rainstorm.
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Where it comes from
A metathetic form of burgh (“mound, settlement”) employed in a special sense; thus a doublet of it, borough, Brough, burr (“halo, brough”), burrow, and Bury. For the semantic development, compare German Hof (“brough, halo, nimb”).
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BROUGH in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 15 boards so far. 39 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 34, 23 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 99, 27 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First found by a player on Day 34, 23 June 2026.
Built from these letters
BROUGH starts with B and ends with H. Sorted, its letters read BGHORU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start BROUGH
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 34
Could you have found BROUGH?
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 34 - and most players walked straight past it.
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