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BLACKERS

8 letters

Definition of BLACKERS

noun

plural of blacker

BLACKER

noun

One who blacks (in various senses).

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Word DNA

BLACKERS inherits its ancestry from its root, BLACK.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Proto-Germanic
  3. Old English
  4. Middle English
  5. English

4 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

14.2%

of traced words share this origin (11,575)

How it is built

noun

Same root, BLACK · 15 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Ancient Greek, Cantonese, Dutch, Latin, Sanskrit.

Every Proto-Indo-European word → · 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.

BLACKERS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 163
Its 2 boards, across 163 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
148
First board
158
Latest board
10
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 148, 15 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 158, 25 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.

First ever to find it

sb88

on Day 148, 15 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

BLACKERS
8
Letters
2
Vowels
6
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

BLACKERS starts with B and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ABCEKLRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start BLACKE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found BLACKERS?

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 148 - and most players walked straight past it.

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