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PARRYING
Definition of PARRYING
verb
present participle and gerund of parry
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Word DNA
PARRYING inherits its ancestry from its root, PARRY.
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (25,664)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PARRY · 5 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.
PARRYING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far. 11 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 152, 19 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 17 days.
First found by a player on Day 152, 19 October 2026.
Built from these letters
PARRYING starts with P and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AGINPRRY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start PARRYI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PARRYING?
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 152 - and most players walked straight past it.
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