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PARMESAN
Definition of PARMESAN
noun
A hard, full-fat Italian cheese from Parma or its neighboring province Reggio Emilia.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Middle French parmesan, from an earlier Vulgar Latin *parmēsānus, restructuring of Latin parmēnsis (from Latin Parma). Compare Italian parmigiano, Catalan parmesà, Portuguese parmesão, Sicilian parmisanu, Spanish parmesano
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PARMESAN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 10 boards so far. 25 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 25, 14 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 92, 20 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 25, 14 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PARMESAN starts with P and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AAEMNPRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A 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.
Words that start PARMES
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 25
Could you have found PARMESAN?
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 25 - and most players walked straight past it.
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