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PARCHESIS
Definition of PARCHESIS
Wiktionary has no entry for PARCHESIS itself. This is its base word, PARCHESI.
noun
Alternative form of pachisi.
noun
An ancient Indian board game in which players, throwing dice, shells, etc. to determine the distance of each move, attempt to be the first to take all of their counters around the board.
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Word DNA
PARCHESIS inherits its ancestry from its root, PACHISI.
Line of descent
- Hindi
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
21st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.4%
of traced words share this origin (341)
branch · 1.5% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PACHISI · 4 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PARCHESIS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 17 days.
First found by a player on Day 140, 7 October 2026.
Built from these letters
PARCHESIS starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACEHIPRSS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S 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 PARCHE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PARCHESIS?
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 140 - and most players walked straight past it.
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