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BLOCK
Definition of BLOCK
noun
A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English blok (“log, stump, solid piece”), from Old French bloc (“log, block”), from Middle Dutch blok (“treetrunk”), from Old Dutch *blok (“log”), from Proto-West Germanic *blokk, from Proto-Germanic *blukką (“beam, log”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵ- (“thick plank, beam, pile, prop”). Cognate with Old Frisian blok, Old Saxon blok, Old High German bloh, bloc (“block”), Old English bolca (“gangway of a ship, plank”), Old Norse bǫlkr (“divider, partition”). More at balk. See also bloc, bulk.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BLOCK in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 6 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 9, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 115, 12 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First found by a player on Day 9, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
BLOCK starts with B and ends with K. Sorted, its letters read BCKLO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start BLOCK
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 9
Could you have found BLOCK?
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 9 - and most players walked straight past it.
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