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CORACLES
Definition of CORACLES
noun
plural of coracle
CORACLE
noun
A small circular or oblong boat made of wickerwork and made watertight with hides or pitch, propelled and steered with a single paddle and light enough to be carried on a person's back.
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Word DNA
CORACLES inherits its ancestry from its root, CORACLE.
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
21st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.5%
of traced words share this origin (133)
branch · 0.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CORACLE · 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.
CORACLES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 131, 28 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 131, 28 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CORACLES starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACCELORS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. C appears more than once.
Words that start CORACL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CORACLES?
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 131 - and most players walked straight past it.
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