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BLOWBYS

7 letters

Definition of BLOWBYS

noun

plural of blowby

BLOWBY

noun

Alternative spelling of blow-by.

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Word DNA

BLOWBYS inherits its ancestry from its root, BLOW.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. Proto-Indo-European
  3. Proto-Germanic
  4. Old English
  5. Middle English
  6. English

5 recorded generations before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.6%

of traced words share this origin (25,330)

Italic

branch · 30.6% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, BLOW · 16 relatives in the game

Every Latin word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

BLOWBYS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 167
Its one board, across 167 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
110
First board
57
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 110, 7 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 57 days.

First found by a player on Day 110, 7 September 2026.

Built from these letters

BLOWBYS
7
Letters
1
Vowels
6
Consonants
6
Different letters
4
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

BLOWBYS starts with B and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read BBLOSWY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. B appears more than once.

Words that start BLOWBY

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found BLOWBYS?

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 110 - and most players walked straight past it.

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