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BROWNIES

8 letters

Definition of BROWNIES

noun

plural of brownie

BROWNIE

noun

A small square piece of rich cake, usually made with chocolate.

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Word DNA

BROWNIES inherits its ancestry from its root, BROWNIE.

Line of descent

  1. Scots
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Scots

Deepest traced root

24th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

0.4%

of traced words share this origin (343)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound-ie

Same root, BROWNIE · 1 relative in the game

Its etymology also names Dutch.

Every Scots word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

BROWNIES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 46 boards so far. 102 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 165
Its 46 boards, across 165 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
46
Boards found on
7
First board
159
Latest board
19
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 159, 26 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.

First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.

Built from these letters

BROWNIES
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start BROWNI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found BROWNIES?

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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.

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