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PARASITAL

9 letters

Definition of PARASITAL

adjective

parasitic

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From parasite + -al.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

adjectivecompound-al

Same root, PARASITE · 9 relatives in the game

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Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

PARASITAL in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 158
Its one board, across 158 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
155
First board
3
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 155, 22 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First ever to find it

matisetormPATRON

on Day 155, 22 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

PARASITAL
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start PARASI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

PARASITEPARASITEDPARASITESPARASITICPARASITINGPARASITISEPARASITISMPARASITIZEPARASITOIDPARASITICALPARASITISEDPARASITISES

Could you have found PARASITAL?

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 155 - and most players walked straight past it.

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