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PARVENU
Definition of PARVENU
noun
A person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class, especially through acquisition of wealth, privileges, or political authority but has not gained social acceptance by those within that new class.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French parvenu, past participle of parvenir, from Latin perveniō (“arrive, reach”). See also parvenue f
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
33%
of traced words share this origin (9,764)
branch · 33% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PARVENU · 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.
PARVENU in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 35 boards so far. 67 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 33, 22 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 33, 22 June 2026.
Built from these letters
PARVENU starts with P and ends with U. Sorted, its letters read AENPRUV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start PARVEN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 33
Could you have found PARVENU?
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 33 - and most players walked straight past it.
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