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CORRUPTING

10 letters

Definition of CORRUPTING

verb

present participle and gerund of corrupt

CORRUPT

adjective

Willing to act dishonestly for personal gain; accepting bribes.

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Word DNA

CORRUPTING inherits its ancestry from its root, CORRUPT.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. Middle English
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.7%

of traced words share this origin (23,914)

Italic

branch · 30.7% of traced words

How it is built

verbcompoundcom-

Same root, CORRUPT · 4 relatives in the game

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

CORRUPTING in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 156
Its 2 boards, across 156 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
138
First board
154
Latest board
16
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

saytheword

on Day 138, 5 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

CORRUPTING
10
Letters
3
Vowels
7
Consonants
9
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

CORRUPTING starts with C and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read CGINOPRRTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once, including a double letter.

Words that start CORRUP

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

CORRUPTCORRUPTSCORRUPTEDCORRUPTERCORRUPTLYCORRUPTORCORRUPTERSCORRUPTESTCORRUPTIONCORRUPTIVECORRUPTORSCORRUPTIBLE

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