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CORVID

/ˈkɔɹvɪd/6 letters

Definition of CORVID

adjective

Pertaining to or resembling the Corvidae.

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Other senses

CORVID carries 4 further meanings.

  1. noun

    Any of various medium-sized to large birds of the family Corvidae, which includes crows, ravens, jays, and magpies.

  2. Pertaining to or resembling the Corvidæ.

  3. noun

    A crow of the family Corvidæ.

  4. noun

    A member of the bird family Corvidae, including crows, ravens, jays, choughs, treepies etc.

Where it comes from

From Corvus + -id.

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Word DNA

How it is built

adjective2 syllablescompound-id

Same root, CORVID · 1 relative in the game

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CORVID in a sentence

“Despite these objections, P. humilis has remained classified as a corvid in most standard works on Corvidae (Goodwin 1986, Madge & Burn 1999) and indeed in most general works on birds.”

Archive 2006-05-01, 2006

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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.

CORVID in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 55 boards so far. 241 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 141
Its 55 boards, across 141 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
55
Boards found on
23
First board
139
Latest board
7
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 23, 12 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 139, 6 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First found by a player on Day 23, 12 June 2026.

Built from these letters

CORVID
6
Letters
2
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start CORVID

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