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BRUSHWORKS
Definition of BRUSHWORKS
noun
plural of brushwork
noun
The technique or practice of applying and manipulating paint (usually oil or gouache) in a painting.
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Word DNA
BRUSHWORKS inherits its ancestry from its root, BRUSHWORK.
How it is built
Same root, BRUSHWORK · 1 relative 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.
BRUSHWORKS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 31 days.
First found by a player on Day 140, 7 October 2026.
Built from these letters
BRUSHWORKS starts with B and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read BHKORRSSUW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R and S appear more than once.
Words that start BRUSHW
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found BRUSHWORKS?
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 140 - and most players walked straight past it.
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