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CORKIEST

8 letters

Definition of CORKIEST

adjective

superlative form of corky: most corky

CORKY

adjective

Of wine, contaminated by a faulty or tainted cork.

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Word DNA

How it is built

adjective

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.

CORKIEST in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 19 boards so far. 24 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 156
Its 19 boards, across 156 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
19
Boards found on
36
First board
155
Latest board
21
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 36, 25 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 155, 22 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

mfhillman

on Day 47, 6 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

CORKIEST
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

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

Same letters, different word

2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start CORKIE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

CORKIERCORKIES

Could you have found CORKIEST?

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 36 - and most players walked straight past it.

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