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PARROTFISH
Definition of PARROTFISH
noun
Any of several tropical marine fish of the family Scaridae known for their beak-like mass of teeth used to scrape algae from rocks or coral.
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Where it comes from
From parrot + fish.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PARROTFISH in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 140, 7 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PARROTFISH starts with P and ends with H. Sorted, its letters read AFHIOPRRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start PARROT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PARROTFISH?
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 140 - and most players walked straight past it.
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