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PARR

/pɑː(ɹ)/4 letters

Definition of PARR

noun

Young salmon, at a stage between fry and smolt when they feed chiefly on invertebrates but cannot tolerate saltwater.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Compare Scottish Gaelic bradan (“salmon”). For the salmon life stage, the word originates from the Middle English parren (“to enclose”), referring to the spots running along the side of the fish, resembling the bars of a fence.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Middle English
  2. Scottish Gaelic
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Middle English

Deepest traced root

4th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

7.4%

of traced words share this origin (1,912)

Germanic

branch · 22.8% of traced words

How it is built

noun1 syllable

Same root, PARR · 2 relatives in the game

Every Middle English 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.

PARR in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 129
Its one board, across 129 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
127
First board
2
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 127, 24 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

lockonandfire

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

Built from these letters

PARR
4
Letters
1
Vowels
3
Consonants
3
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

PARR starts with P and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read APRR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once, including a double letter.

Words that start PARR

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

PARRAPARRSPARRYPARRALPARRASPARREDPARRELPARROTPARRALSPARRELSPARRIEDPARRIER

Could you have found PARR?

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 127 - and most players walked straight past it.

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