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UPBLOW
Definition of UPBLOW
verb
To inflate.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English upblowen, equivalent to up- + blow.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Middle English
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
4th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
7.4%
of traced words share this origin (1,911)
branch · 22.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, UPBLOW · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
UPBLOW in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 128, 25 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 128, 25 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
UPBLOW starts with U and ends with W. Sorted, its letters read BLOPUW - 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 UPBLOW
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found UPBLOW?
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 128 - and most players walked straight past it.
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