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BLACK
Definition of BLACK
adjective
Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English blak, black, blake, from Old English blæc (“black, dark", also "ink”), from Proto-West Germanic *blak, from Proto-Germanic *blakaz (“burnt”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleg- (“to burn, shine”). See also Dutch blaken (“to burn”), Low German blak, black (“blackness, black paint, (black) ink”), Old High German blah (“black”); also compare Latin flagrāre (“to burn”), Ancient Greek φλόξ (phlóx, “flame”), Sanskrit भर्ग (bharga, “radiance”). Adjective sense 20 is a semantic loan from Cantonese 黑面 (hak1 min6, “to pull a long face, to scowl”).
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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.
BLACK in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 11 boards so far. 14 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 21, 10 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 110, 7 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 21, 10 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BLACK starts with B and ends with K. Sorted, its letters read ABCKL - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start BLACK
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found BLACK?
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 21 - and most players walked straight past it.
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