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PARENTS
Definition of PARENTS
noun
plural of parent
noun
A person who raises a child (which they have made, adopted, fostered, taken as their own, etc.).
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Word DNA
PARENTS inherits its ancestry from its root, PARENT.
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.
PARENTS in OUTLIER
It has fitted 44 boards so far. 12 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 67, 26 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
PARENTS starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AENPRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
6 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 PARENTS?
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 67 - and most players walked straight past it.
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