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DISINFECTANT
Definition of DISINFECTANT
adjective
Serving to kill germs or viruses.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From disinfect + -ant, borrowed from French désinfectant.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
5th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
5.3%
of traced words share this origin (4,168)
branch · 12.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, DISINFECTANT · 1 relative 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.
DISINFECTANT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 90, 18 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 70 days.
First found by a player on Day 90, 18 August 2026.
Built from these letters
DISINFECTANT starts with D and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ACDEFIINNSTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I, N and T appear more than once.
Words that start DISINFEC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found DISINFECTANT?
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 90 - and most players walked straight past it.
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