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PARLOR
Definition of PARLOR
noun
The living room of a house, or a room for entertaining guests; a room for talking; a sitting-room or drawing room.
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Where it comes from
Inherited from Middle English parlour, from Old French parleor, parloir, parleoir, from the verb parler (“to speak”); compare Medieval Latin parlātōrium. Doublet of parloir. Displaced native Old English sprǣchūs.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Old French
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
9th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
2.9%
of traced words share this origin (2,506)
branch · 12.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PARLOR · 3 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Latin, Old English.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PARLOR in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 20 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 154, 21 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PARLOR starts with P and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read ALOPRR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once.
Could you have found PARLOR?
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 154 - and most players walked straight past it.
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