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corper

noun

corper is a noun meaning “A member of Nigeria's National Youth Service Corps” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-O-R-P-E-R, and it appears about once in every 95 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of corper is corpers.

What does corper mean?

noun

  1. 1

    informalA member of Nigeria's National Youth Service Corps.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of corper

  • corpers plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is corper?

Corper appears about once in every 95 million words in written English, the 313,259th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does corper come from?

From corps + -er.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).