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DEPILATORY
Definition of DEPILATORY
adjective
That removes hair
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
DEPILATORY carries 4 further meanings.
adjective
Having the capability to remove hair.
noun
A preparation in the form of a liquid or cream that is used to remove unwanted hair from the body.
Having the property of removing hair from the skin.
noun
An application used to remove hair without injuring the texture of the skin; specifically, a cosmetic employed to remove superfluous hairs from the human skin, as calx sulphurata.
Where it comes from
From French dépilatoire.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
5th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
7.2%
of traced words share this origin (2,103)
branch · 15.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, DEPILATORY · 1 relative in the game
DEPILATORY in a sentence
“A good depilatory is still a desideratum, the best perfumers of London and Paris have none which they can recommend.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
DEPILATORY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 45 boards so far. 128 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 27, 16 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 142, 9 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 27, 16 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
DEPILATORY starts with D and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ADEILOPRTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start DEPILA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 27
Could you have found DEPILATORY?
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 27 - and most players walked straight past it.
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