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BLAZER
Definition of BLAZER
noun
A thing which blazes or shines brightly. A very bright or hot day. A dish used to cook directly over the coals of a brazier, or the flame of a chafing dish lamp. A flat metal piece placed against a fire grate to cause the fire to blaze by creating a draught; a blower. A comet.
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Where it comes from
From blaze (“to reflect or send forth a bright light; (figurative) to be conspicuous; etc.”, verb) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns). Blaze is derived from blaze (“fire”, noun), from Middle English blase (“a flame, blaze; a firebrand, torch; a bright light”), from Old English blæse, blase (“a flame, blaze; a firebrand, torch”) (whence Old English blæsere, blasere (“one who burns, burner, incendiary”, literally “blazer”)), from Proto-West Germanic *blasā (“a flame, blaze; a firebrand, torch”), from Proto-Germanic *blasǭ (“a torch”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to blaze, burn; to be bright, shine; bright flame, fire; shiny; white”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BLAZER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 21, 10 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 68, 27 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 34 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 21, 10 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BLAZER starts with B and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read ABELRZ - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses Z - among the least common letters in written English.
Also seen on Day 21
Could you have found BLAZER?
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 21 - and most players walked straight past it.
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