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MAINBRACE
Definition of MAINBRACE
noun
The rope (or sheet) used to control the main yard. The main yard is the spar set across the mast, from which the mainsail is hung.
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Where it comes from
From main + brace.
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.
MAINBRACE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 74, 2 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 50 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 74, 2 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MAINBRACE starts with M and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AABCEIMNR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Could you have found MAINBRACE?
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 74 - and most players walked straight past it.
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