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CORKIES

7 letters

Definition of CORKIES

noun

plural of corky

CORKY

adjective

Of wine, contaminated by a faulty or tainted cork.

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Word DNA

CORKIES inherits its ancestry from its root, CORKY.

How it is built

nouncompound

Same root, CORKY · 1 relative in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

CORKIES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 166
Its 2 boards, across 166 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
163
First board
164
Latest board
1
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 163, 30 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 164, 31 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

meljsims

on Day 163, 30 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

CORKIES
7
Letters
3
Vowels
4
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

CORKIES starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CEIKORS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start CORKIE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found CORKIES?

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 163 - and most players walked straight past it.

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