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BRIBERIES
Definition of BRIBERIES
noun
plural of bribery
BRIBERY
noun
The act of giving an illegal payment (a bribe) to a person in an official position as a means of influencing their decisions.
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Word DNA
BRIBERIES inherits its ancestry from its root, BRIBE.
Line of descent
- Old French
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
9th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
2.9%
of traced words share this origin (2,314)
branch · 12.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, BRIBE · 9 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.
BRIBERIES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 151, 18 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 151, 18 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BRIBERIES starts with B and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read BBEEIIRRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. B, R, I and E appear more than once.
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 BRIBER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found BRIBERIES?
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 151 - and most players walked straight past it.
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