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PARA
Definition of PARA
noun
A former subunit of currency in several countries in the Ottoman/Turkish and Yugoslav regions.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian pàra / па̀ра, from Ottoman Turkish پاره (pare, para), from Persian پاره (pâre).
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.
PARA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 9 boards so far. 11 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 33, 22 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 104, 1 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 17 days.
First found by a player on Day 33, 22 June 2026.
Built from these letters
PARA starts with P and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AAPR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
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 PARA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 33
Could you have found PARA?
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 33 - and most players walked straight past it.
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