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BLOT

/blɒt/4 letters

Definition of BLOT

noun

A blemish, spot or stain made by a coloured substance.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English blot (“blot, spot, stain, blemish”). Perhaps from Old Norse *blettr (“blot, stain”) (only attested in documents from after Old Norse transitioned to Icelandic blettur), or from Old French bloche (“clod of earth”).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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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.

BLOT in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 13 boards so far. 19 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 120
Its 13 boards, across 120 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
13
Boards found on
7
First board
120
Latest board
20
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 120, 17 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.

Built from these letters

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

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

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start BLOT

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found BLOT?

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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.

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