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BURNISHED
Definition of BURNISHED
verb
simple past and past participle of burnish
verb
To make (something, such as a surface) bright, shiny, and smooth by, or as if by, rubbing; to polish, to shine.
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Word DNA
BURNISHED inherits its ancestry from its root, BURNISH.
Line of descent
6 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
8.9%
of traced words share this origin (2,623)
How it is built
Same root, BURNISH · 3 relatives in the game
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BURNISHED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 55 boards so far. 175 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 11, 31 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 148, 15 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 11, 31 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BURNISHED starts with B and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read BDEHINRSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start BURNIS
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 11
Could you have found BURNISHED?
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 11 - and most players walked straight past it.
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