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PAROTIS
Definition of PAROTIS
noun
The parotid gland.
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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.
PAROTIS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 87, 15 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 15 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 87, 15 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PAROTIS starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AIOPRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start PAROTI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PAROTIS?
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 87 - and most players walked straight past it.
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