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PARE
Definition of PARE
verb
To remove the outer covering or skin of something with a cutting device, typically a knife.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English paren, from Old French parer (“to arrange, prepare, trim”), from Latin parō (“to prepare, arrange; to provide, furnish; to resolve, purpose”) (related to pariō (“to bear, to give birth to; to spawn, produce, beget; to procure, acquire”)), from a Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to bring forward, bring forth”).
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.
PARE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 16 boards so far. 15 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 39, 28 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 108, 5 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 39, 28 June 2026.
Built from these letters
PARE starts with P and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEPR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
4 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start PARE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 39
Could you have found PARE?
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 39 - and most players walked straight past it.
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