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CORUSCATES

10 letters

Definition of CORUSCATES

verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of coruscate

CORUSCATE

verb

To give off light; to reflect in flashes; to sparkle.

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Word DNA

CORUSCATES inherits its ancestry from its root, CORUSCATE.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

33.1%

of traced words share this origin (9,860)

Italic

branch · 33.1% of traced words

How it is built

verb-ate

Same root, CORUSCATE · 3 relatives in the game

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Rarity score
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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.

CORUSCATES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 152
Its one board, across 152 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
140
First board
12
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.

First ever to find it

spoonbillPATRONContributor

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

Built from these letters

CORUSCATES
10
Letters
4
Vowels
6
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

CORUSCATES starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACCEORSSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. C and S appear more than once.

Words that start CORUSC

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found CORUSCATES?

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 140 - and most players walked straight past it.

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