Unscramble

p 3 a 1 r 1 l 1 o 1 u 1 s 1

7 letters · 9 points in Scrabble

Meaning

adjective fraught with danger

originFrom Middle English parles, parlous, perlous, [and other forms], a contraction of perilous (“dangerous; dreadful, terrible; morally corrupt, sinful, wicked; inauspicious, unlucky”) (and thus a doublet of perilous), from Old French perilleus, perillos, perillous, perilluse, perilleuse, perilleux (“very dangerous, perilous”) (modern French périlleux), from Latin perīculōsus (“dangerous, hazardous,…

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