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PARER

5 letters

Definition of PARER

noun

A tool used to pare things.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From pare + -er.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

nouncompound-er

Same root, PARE · 4 relatives in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

PARER in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 176
Its one board, across 176 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
172
First board
4
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 172, 8 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.

First ever to find it

notamushimaster

on Day 172, 8 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

PARER
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

PARER starts with P and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read AEPRR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R 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.

RAPER

Words that start PARER

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

PARERAPARERSPARERASPARERGAPARERGON

Could you have found PARER?

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 172 - and most players walked straight past it.

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