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PAINTBRUSHES

12 letters

Definition of PAINTBRUSHES

noun

plural of paintbrush

PAINTBRUSH

noun

A thin brush for applying paint.

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Word DNA

PAINTBRUSHES inherits its ancestry from its root, PAINTBRUSH.

How it is built

nouncompound

Same root, PAINTBRUSH · 1 relative 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.

PAINTBRUSHES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 146
Its one board, across 146 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
140
First board
6
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.

First ever to find it

squisher91

on Day 140, 7 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

PAINTBRUSHES
12
Letters
4
Vowels
8
Consonants
11
Different letters
4
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

PAINTBRUSHES starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ABEHINPRSSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S appears more than once.

Words that start PAINTBRU

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found PAINTBRUSHES?

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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