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PARRS

5 letters

Definition of PARRS

noun

plural of parr

PARR

noun

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

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Word DNA

PARRS inherits its ancestry from its root, PARR.

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

noun

Same root, PARR · 2 relatives in the game

Every Middle English word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

PARRS 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

potatoContributor

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

Built from these letters

PARRS
5
Letters
1
Vowels
4
Consonants
4
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Could you have found PARRS?

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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