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EMBRUTED

8 letters

Definition of EMBRUTED

verb

simple past and past participle of embrute

IMBRUTE · via embrute

verb

To make brutal

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Word DNA

How it is built

verb

Same root, EMBRUTE · 2 relatives in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

EMBRUTED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 177
Its 2 boards, across 177 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
158
First board
171
Latest board
13
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 158, 25 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 171, 7 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.

First ever to find it

popsackle

on Day 158, 25 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

EMBRUTED
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

EMBRUTED starts with E and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read BDEEMRTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.

Words that start EMBRUT

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found EMBRUTED?

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 158 - and most players walked straight past it.

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