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BLOOD
Definition of BLOOD
noun
A vital liquid flowing in the bodies of many types of animals that usually conveys nutrients and oxygen. In vertebrates, it is colored red by hemoglobin, is conveyed by arteries and veins, is pumped by the heart and is usually generated in bone marrow.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English blood, from Old English blōd, from Proto-West Germanic *blōd, from Proto-Germanic *blōþą, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- ("to swell") + -ó- (thematic vowel) + -to (nominalizer), i.e. "that which bursts out". Cognate with Scots blude, bluid (“blood”), North Frisian blud, blödj, Blör (“blood”), Saterland Frisian Bloud (“blood”), West Frisian bloed (“blood”), Cimbrian pluat, pluut (“blood”), Dutch bloed (“blood”), German Blut (“blood”), German Low German Blood, Bloot (“blood”), Luxembourgish Blutt (“blood”), Vilamovian błüt (“blood”), Yiddish בלוט (blut, “blood”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish blod (“blood”), Faroese and Icelandic blóð (“blood”), Crimean Gothic plut (“blood”), Gothic 𐌱𐌻𐍉𐌸 (blōþ, “blood”).
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Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
9%
of traced words share this origin (2,585)
How it is built
Same root, BLOOD · 3 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Danish, Dutch, Icelandic, Norwegian, Scots, Swedish, Yiddish.
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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.
BLOOD in OUTLIER
It has fitted 1 board so far. 16 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 76, 4 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 67 days.
First found by a player on Day 39, 28 June 2026.
Built from these letters
BLOOD starts with B and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read BDLOO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start BLOOD
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found BLOOD?
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 76 - and most players walked straight past it.
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