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BRUNCH
Definition of BRUNCH
noun
A meal eaten later in the day than breakfast and earlier than lunch, often in a leisurely, festive, and/or social way, and often consisting of typical foods from both of those meals.
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Where it comes from
Blend of breakfast + lunch. Attested from 1895 in British English and from 1930 in the United States.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, BRUNCH · 3 relatives 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.
BRUNCH in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 17 boards so far. 33 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 28, 17 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 14 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 28, 17 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BRUNCH starts with B and ends with H. Sorted, its letters read BCHNRU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start BRUNCH
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 28
Could you have found BRUNCH?
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 28 - and most players walked straight past it.
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