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PARMIGIANA

/ˌpɑɹməˈʒɑnə/10 letters

Definition of PARMIGIANA

adjective

Cooked or served with Parmesan cheese and tomato sauce.

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Where it comes from

Borrowed from Italian parmigiana, shortening of alla parmigiana (“in the Parmesan way”), or, as a noun, of parmigiana di melanzane/melanzane alla parmigiana, the southern Italian dish which is made with eggplant.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Italian
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Italian

Deepest traced root

10th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

1.8%

of traced words share this origin (475)

Romance

branch · 15.1% of traced words

How it is built

adjective4 syllables

Every Italian word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
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Tier
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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.

PARMIGIANA in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 128
Its one board, across 128 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
127
First board
1
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 127, 24 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

bettinarose

on Day 127, 24 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

PARMIGIANA
10
Letters
5
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

PARMIGIANA starts with P and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AAAGIIMNPR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and I appear more than once.

Words that start PARMIG

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

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