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BRUNT
Definition of BRUNT
noun
The full adverse effects; the chief consequences or negative results of a thing or event.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English brunt, bront (“sudden onset, attack, charge, blow”), from Old Norse brundr or brundtíð (“oestrus, rut”) (from Proto-Germanic *brunstiz), or bruna (“to rush”, literally “to advance like wildfire”) (see brenna).
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.
BRUNT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 26 boards so far. 63 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 33, 22 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 119, 16 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 34, 23 June 2026.
Built from these letters
BRUNT starts with B and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read BNRTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start BRUNT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 33
Could you have found BRUNT?
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 33 - and most players walked straight past it.
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