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PARLOUS
Definition of PARLOUS
adjective
Attended with peril; dangerous, risky.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English parles, parlous, perlous, [and other forms], a contraction of perilous (“dangerous; dreadful, terrible; morally corrupt, sinful, wicked; inauspicious, unlucky”) (and thus a doublet of perilous), from Old French perilleus, perillos, perillous, perilluse, perilleuse, perilleux (“very dangerous, perilous”) (modern French périlleux), from Latin perīculōsus (“dangerous, hazardous, perilous”), from perīculum (“danger, hazard, peril, risk”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to go through, carry forth, try”)) + -ōsus (suffix meaning ‘full of, prone to’ forming adjectives).
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PARLOUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 30 boards so far. 55 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 54, 13 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 109, 6 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 54, 13 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PARLOUS starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ALOPRSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start PARLOU
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 54
Could you have found PARLOUS?
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 54 - and most players walked straight past it.
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