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BLEED

/ˈbliːd/5 letters

Definition of BLEED

verb

To shed blood through an injured blood vessel.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English bleden, from Old English blēdan (“to bleed”), from Proto-West Germanic *blōdijan, from Proto-Germanic *blōdijaną (“to bleed”), from *blōþą (“blood”). Cognate with Scots blede, bleid (“to bleed”), Saterland Frisian bläide (“to bleed”), West Frisian bliede (“to bleed”), Dutch bloeden (“to bleed”), Low German blöden (“to bleed”), German bluten (“to bleed”), Danish bløde (“to bleed”), Swedish blöda (“to bleed”).

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.

BLEED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 6 boards so far.

Day 1Day 102
Its 6 boards, across 102 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
6
Boards found on
7
First board
100
Latest board
48
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 100, 28 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.

Built from these letters

BLEED
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

BLEED starts with B and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read BDEEL - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once, including a double letter.

Same letters, different word

2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start BLEED

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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.

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