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PALAVERS

8 letters

Definition of PALAVERS

verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of palaver

PALAVER

noun

A village council meeting.

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Another sense

PALAVERS carries a second meaning.

  1. verb

    Third-person singular simple present indicative form of palaver.

Word DNA

PALAVERS inherits its ancestry from its root, PALAVER.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. Portuguese
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

33.1%

of traced words share this origin (9,723)

Italic

branch · 33.1% of traced words

How it is built

verb

Same root, PALAVER · 3 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.

PALAVERS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 44 boards so far. 236 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 150
Its 44 boards, across 150 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
44
Boards found on
22
First board
150
Latest board
11
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 22, 11 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

tusk

on Day 22, 11 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

PALAVERS
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

PALAVERS starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AAELPRSV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.

Words that start PALAVE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found PALAVERS?

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 22 - and most players walked straight past it.

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