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DAYBREAK

/ˈdeɪbɹeɪk/8 letters

Definition of DAYBREAK

noun

The beginning of the day; the first moment of daylight.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From day + break.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

DAYBREAK in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 6 boards so far. 19 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 102
Its 6 boards, across 102 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
6
Boards found on
51
First board
86
Latest board
13
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 51, 10 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 86, 14 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 16 days.

First ever to find it

daniphantom

on Day 51, 10 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

DAYBREAK
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

DAYBREAK starts with D and ends with K. Sorted, its letters read AABDEKRY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.

Words that start DAYBRE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found DAYBREAK?

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 51 - and most players walked straight past it.

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