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HORRIPILATE
Definition of HORRIPILATE
verb
To bristle in fear or horror; to have goose bumps or goose pimples.
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Where it comes from
From Late Latin horripilātus, perfect passive participle of horripilō (“(of hairs) to bristle”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from horreō (“to bristle, shiver, dread”) + pilus (“hair”) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰers- (“to bristle”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Proto-Indo-European
- Latin
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.2%
of traced words share this origin (11,575)
How it is built
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HORRIPILATE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 152, 19 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 155, 22 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.
First found by a player on Day 152, 19 October 2026.
Built from these letters
HORRIPILATE starts with H and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEHIILOPRRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R and I appear more than once, including a double letter.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start HORRIPI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
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