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PARR
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
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
4th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
7.4%
of traced words share this origin (1,912)
branch · 22.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PARR · 2 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.
PARR in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
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
on Day 127, 24 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
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.
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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