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BRUNOISE

/bɹʊˈnwɑːz/8 letters

Definition of BRUNOISE

noun

A very fine dice. A method of cutting vegetables, usually to the dimensions of 2 mm or less, by julienning and then cutting many times at a 90-degree angle to the julienne.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Borrowed from French brunoise.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. French
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

French

Deepest traced root

5th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

5.3%

of traced words share this origin (4,395)

Romance

branch · 12.8% of traced words

How it is built

noun2 syllables

Same root, BRUNOISE · 1 relative in the game

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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.

BRUNOISE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 167
Its 2 boards, across 167 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
157
First board
158
Latest board
1
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 157, 24 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 158, 25 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.

First ever to find it

vocabulariousPATRON

on Day 157, 24 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

BRUNOISE
8
Letters
4
Vowels
4
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start BRUNOI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found BRUNOISE?

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 157 - and most players walked straight past it.

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