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BLOW
Definition of BLOW
verb
To produce an air current.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English blowen, from Old English blāwan (“to blow, breathe, inflate, sound”), from Proto-West Germanic *blāan, from Proto-Germanic *blēaną (“to blow”) (compare German blähen), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (“to swell, blow up”) (compare Latin flō (“to blow”) and Old Armenian բեղուն (bełun, “fertile”)).
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.
BLOW in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 11 boards so far. 21 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 110, 7 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
BLOW starts with B and ends with W. Sorted, its letters read BLOW - 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 BLOW
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found BLOW?
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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