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BLEARING
Definition of BLEARING
verb
present participle and gerund of blear
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Word DNA
BLEARING inherits its ancestry from its root, BLEAR.
Line of descent
- German
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
8th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.1%
of traced words share this origin (919)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, BLEAR · 3 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BLEARING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 14 boards so far. 13 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 26, 15 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 151, 18 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 26, 15 June 2026.
Built from these letters
BLEARING starts with B and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read ABEGILNR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start BLEARI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 26
Could you have found BLEARING?
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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