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BLIN

/blɪn/4 letters

Definition of BLIN

verb

To cease (from); to stop; to desist, to let up.

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Where it comes from

From Middle English blinnen, from Old English blinnan (“to stop, cease”), from Proto-Germanic *bilinnaną (“to turn aside, swerve from”), from Proto-Indo-European *ley-, *leya- (“to deflect, turn away, vanish, slip”); equivalent to be- + lin. Cognate with Old High German bilinnan (“to yield, stop, forlet, give away”), Old Norse linna (Swedish dialectal linna, “to pause, rest”). See also lin.

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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.

BLIN in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 12 boards so far. 18 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 120
Its 12 boards, across 120 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
12
Boards found on
29
First board
116
Latest board
31
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 29, 18 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 116, 13 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.

First found by a player on Day 29, 18 June 2026.

Built from these letters

BLIN
4
Letters
1
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start BLIN

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 29 - and most players walked straight past it.

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