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BROWING

7 letters

Definition of BROWING

verb

present participle and gerund of brow

BROW

noun

The bony ridge over the eyes, upon which the eyebrows are located.

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Word DNA

BROWING inherits its ancestry from its root, BROW.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Proto-Germanic
  3. Old English
  4. Middle English
  5. English

4 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

14.2%

of traced words share this origin (12,180)

How it is built

verb

Same root, BROW · 4 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Ancient Greek, Danish, Dutch, Icelandic, Irish, Norwegian, Persian, Russian and 3 more.

Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
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.

BROWING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 175
Its 3 boards, across 175 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
151
First board
171
Latest board
12
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 151, 18 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 171, 7 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.

First ever to find it

wirdbird

on Day 151, 18 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

BROWING
7
Letters
2
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Could you have found BROWING?

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 151 - and most players walked straight past it.

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