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BLASH

5 letters

Definition of BLASH

noun

A heavy fall of rain.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Unclear. Perhaps ultimately imitative; compare plash, pash (“heavy rain”), dialectal clash (“heavy rain”).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

BLASH in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 4 boards so far.

Day 1Day 102
Its 4 boards, across 102 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
4
Boards found on
26
First board
62
Latest board
16
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 26, 15 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 62, 21 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 40 days.

First ever to find it

leopardpanda

on Day 26, 15 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

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

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start BLASH

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

BLASHYBLASHESBLASHIERBLASHIEST

Could you have found BLASH?

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 26 - and most players walked straight past it.

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