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BROUGHS
Definition of BROUGHS
noun
plural 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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Word DNA
BROUGHS inherits its ancestry from its root, BROUGH.
Line of descent
- German
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
8th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.1%
of traced words share this origin (914)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, BROUGH · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BROUGHS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 15 boards so far. 20 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 43, 2 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 43, 2 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BROUGHS starts with B and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read BGHORSU - 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 43
Could you have found BROUGHS?
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 43 - and most players walked straight past it.
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