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PARK
Definition of PARK
noun
An area of land set aside for environment preservation or recreation.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English park, from Old French parc (“livestock pen”), from Medieval Latin parcus, parricus, from Frankish *parrik (“enclosure, pen, fence”). Cognate with Dutch perk (“enclosure; flowerbed”), Old High German pfarrih, pferrih (“enclosure, pen”), Old English pearroc (“enclosure”) (whence modern English paddock), Old Norse parrak, parak (“enclosure, pen; distress, anxiety”), Icelandic parraka (“to keep pent in under restraint and coercion”). More at parrock, paddock.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
30th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.3%
of traced words share this origin (198)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PARK · 12 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Dutch, German, Icelandic, Old English, Old Norse.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PARK in OUTLIER
It has fitted 7 boards so far. 22 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 68, 27 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 155, 22 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 9, 29 May 2026.
Also on
Built from these letters
PARK starts with P and ends with K. Sorted, its letters read AKPR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start PARK
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PARK?
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 68 - and most players walked straight past it.
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