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PARROTING
Definition of PARROTING
verb
present participle and gerund of parrot
PARROT
noun
A kind of bird, many species of which are colorful and able to mimic human speech, of the order Psittaciformes or (narrowly) of the family Psittacidae.
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Word DNA
PARROTING inherits its ancestry from its root, PARROT.
Line of descent
- Middle French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
13th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
1.1%
of traced words share this origin (334)
branch · 15.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PARROT · 2 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Italian, Spanish.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PARROTING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 138, 5 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PARROTING starts with P and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AGINOPRRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once, including a double letter.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start PARROT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
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