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BLANDISHMENT
Definition of BLANDISHMENT
noun
Often in the plural form blandishments: a flattering speech or action designed to influence or persuade.
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Where it comes from
From blandish (“to persuade someone by using flattery, to cajole; to praise someone dishonestly, to flatter or butter up”) + -ment (suffix forming nouns from verbs, having the sense of ‘the action or result of what is denoted by the verbs’). Blandish is derived from Middle English blaundishen (“to flatter; to fawn; to be enticing or persuasive; to be favourable; of the sea: to become calm”) [and other forms] (whence blaundice (“flattery, blandishment; caresses, dalliance; allurement, attractiveness; deceitfulness, deception”) [and other forms]), from Middle English blaundishen, from blandiss-, the extended stem of Middle French blandir + Middle English -ishen (suffix forming verbs). Blandir is derived from Latin blandīrī, the present active infinitive of blandior (“to fawn, flatter; to delude”), from blandus (“fawning, flattering, smooth, suave; persuasive; alluring, enticing, seductive; agreeable, pleasant”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mel- (“erroneous, false; bad, evil”)) + -iō (suffix forming causative verbs from adjectives).
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Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.2%
of traced words share this origin (12,230)
How it is built
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BLANDISHMENT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far. 15 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 166, 2 November 2026. The most recent board was Day 169, 5 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 166, 2 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BLANDISHMENT starts with B and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ABDEHILMNNST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N appears more than once.
Words that start BLANDISH
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
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