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PAELLA
Definition of PAELLA
noun
A savory Valencian dish made of rice, cooked in a frying pan with vegetables and meat or shellfish.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Catalan paella (“pot; pan”), from Old French paelle, from Latin patella (“plate, small pan”). Doublet of patella and possibly pail.
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.
PAELLA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 110, 7 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 110, 7 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PAELLA starts with P and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AAELLP - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and L appear more than once, including a double letter.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start PAELLA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PAELLA?
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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