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BLANKET
Definition of BLANKET
noun
A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually large and woollen, used for warmth while sleeping or resting.
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Where it comes from
Inherited from Middle English blanket, blonket, blaunket, from Old Northern French blanket, blancet (“white horse", also "white woollen cloth or flannel; a type of jacket”, literally “that which is white”) (whence Modern French blanchet), diminutive of blanc (“white”), of Germanic origin (compare Old English blanca (“white horse”); see more at blank). Furthermore, the sense "white woollen cloth" is likely a calque of Old English hwītel (“blanket; cloak, mantle”), from Old English hwīt (“white”) + -el (diminutive suffix). Compare also Old Norse hvítill (“a white bed-cover, sheet”), Norwegian kvitel (“blanket”). Compare also blunket, plunket. Displaced native Middle English whytel, from Old English hwītel (whence Modern English whittle (“blanket, cloak, shawl”)).
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Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
6th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
4.1%
of traced words share this origin (1,257)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, BLANKET · 2 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Norwegian, Old Norse.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BLANKET in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 19 boards so far. 46 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 148, 15 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
BLANKET starts with B and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ABEKLNT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start BLANKE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 7
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