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BRUNET
Definition of BRUNET
adjective
Of a man's or boy's hair: brown or dark brown.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From French brunet. Compare also Middle English brunet, burnet (“brown”), from Old French brunet, which is the same word.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BRUNET in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 43, 2 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 85, 13 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 17 days.
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
BRUNET starts with B and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read BENRTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start BRUNET
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 43
Could you have found BRUNET?
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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