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PARETICS

8 letters

Definition of PARETICS

noun

plural of paretic

PARETIC

adjective

Pertaining to paresis.

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Word DNA

PARETICS inherits its ancestry from its root, PARETIC.

How it is built

noun

Same root, PARETIC · 1 relative 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.

PARETICS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 159
Its 3 boards, across 159 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
53
First board
120
Latest board
42
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 53, 12 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 120, 17 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 39 days.

First ever to find it

cellophane

on Day 53, 12 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

PARETICS
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

PARETICS starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACEIPRST - 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 PARETI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found PARETICS?

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 53 - and most players walked straight past it.

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