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CORRUPTS

8 letters

Definition of CORRUPTS

verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of corrupt

CORRUPT

adjective

Willing to act dishonestly for personal gain; accepting bribes.

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Word DNA

CORRUPTS 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 (25,613)

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

CORRUPTS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 169
Its one board, across 169 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
140
First board
29
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 29 days.

First ever to find it

orla

on Day 140, 7 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

CORRUPTS
8
Letters
2
Vowels
6
Consonants
7
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

CORRUPTS starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read COPRRSTU - 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.

CORRUPTCORRUPTEDCORRUPTERCORRUPTLYCORRUPTORCORRUPTERSCORRUPTESTCORRUPTINGCORRUPTIONCORRUPTIVECORRUPTORSCORRUPTIBLE

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