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BLANK

/blænk/5 letters

Definition of BLANK

adjective

White or pale; without colour.

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Where it comes from

From Middle English blank, blonc, blaunc, blaunche, from Anglo-Norman blonc, blaunc, blaunche, from Old French blanc, feminine blanche, from Frankish *blank (“gleaming, white, blinding”), from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“white, bright, blinding”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ- (“to shine”). Akin to Old High German blanch (“shining, bright, white”) (German blank), Old English blanc (“white, grey”), blanca (“white steed”), Spanish blanco. More at blink, blind, blanch. Doublet of blanc.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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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.

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Players have found it on 7 boards so far.

Day 1Day 122
Its 7 boards, across 122 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
7
Boards found on
23
First board
110
Latest board
38
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 23, 12 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 110, 7 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.

First found by a player on Day 23, 12 June 2026.

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Built from these letters

BLANK
5
Letters
1
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start BLANK

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

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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 23 - and most players walked straight past it.

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