The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
PARALOGUE
Definition of PARALOGUE
noun
A pair of genes that derives from the same ancestral gene and now reside at different locations within the same genome.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From para- + -logue.
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.
PARALOGUE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 8 boards so far. 11 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 40, 29 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 98, 26 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 40, 29 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PARALOGUE starts with P and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AAEGLOPRU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start PARALO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 40
Could you have found PARALOGUE?
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 40 - and most players walked straight past it.
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