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PARENT
Definition of PARENT
noun
A person who raises a child (which they have made, adopted, fostered, taken as their own, etc.).
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Where it comes from
From Middle English parent, borrowed from Anglo-Norman parent, Middle French parent, from Latin parentem, accusative of parēns (“parent”), present participle of pariō (“to breed, bring forth”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33%
of traced words share this origin (9,457)
branch · 33% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PARENT · 3 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.
PARENT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 9 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 17, 6 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 117, 14 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 25 days.
First found by a player on Day 17, 6 June 2026.
Built from these letters
PARENT starts with P and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AENPRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
5 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start PARENT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PARENT?
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 17 - and most players walked straight past it.
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