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PARQUETS
Definition of PARQUETS
noun
plural of parquet
noun
A wooden floor made of wooden tiles or veneers arranged in a decorative geometrical pattern.
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Word DNA
PARQUETS inherits its ancestry from its root, PARQUET.
Line of descent
- French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
5th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
7.2%
of traced words share this origin (2,111)
branch · 15.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PARQUET · 3 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PARQUETS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 10 boards so far. 50 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 38, 27 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 126, 23 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 23 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 38, 27 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PARQUETS starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEPQRSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses Q - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start PARQUE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PARQUETS?
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 38 - and most players walked straight past it.
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