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BLETCH

/blɛt͡ʃ/6 letters

Definition of BLETCH

verb

To blacken; to dirty or soil.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Probably a blend of bleck + blatch.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

verb1 syllablecompound

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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.

BLETCH in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 164
Its 2 boards, across 164 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
148
First board
156
Latest board
8
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 148, 15 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 156, 23 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.

First ever to find it

latartarugaPATRON

on Day 148, 15 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

BLETCH
6
Letters
1
Vowels
5
Consonants
6
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Could you have found BLETCH?

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 148 - and most players walked straight past it.

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