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BLENCH
Definition of BLENCH
verb
To shrink; start back; give way; flinch; turn aside or fly off.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English blench (noun) and blenchen (verb), from Old English blenċan (“to deceive, cheat”), from Proto-West Germanic *blankijan, from Proto-Germanic *blankijaną (“to deceive”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ-. Cognate with Icelandic blekkja (“to deceive, cheat, impose upon”).
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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.
BLENCH in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 68, 27 July 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 68, 27 July 2026.
Built from these letters
BLENCH starts with B and ends with H. Sorted, its letters read BCEHLN - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start BLENCH
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found BLENCH?
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 68 - and most players walked straight past it.
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