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AVERAGE
Scrabble Validity
✅ Valid Word
Valid in:
- SOWPODS/CSW (Scrabble UK)
- TWL/NWL (Scrabble US)
- ENABLE (Words with Friends)
Tile Values
A
1
V
4
E
1
R
1
A
1
G
2
E
1
Σ
11
Definitions
Adjective
- lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered; "average people"; "the ordinary (or common) man in the street"
- around the middle of a scale of evaluation; "an orange of average size"; "intermediate capacity"; "medium bombers"
- approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value; "the average income in New England is below that of the nation"; "of average height for his age"; "the mean annual rainfall"
- relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in a set with an even number of values); "the median value of 17, 20, and 36 is 20"; "the median income for the year was $15,000"
- relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution; "the modal age at which American novelists reach their peak is 30"
- lacking exceptional quality or ability; "a novel of average merit"; "only a fair performance of the sonata"; "in fair health"; "the caliber of the students has gone from mediocre to above average"; "the performance was middling at best"
Verb
- compute the average of
- achieve or reach on average; "He averaged a C"
- amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain; "The number of hours I work per work averages out to 40"
Noun
- an intermediate scale value regarded as normal or usual; "he is about average in height"; "the snowfall this month is below average"
- a statistic describing the location of a distribution; "it set the norm for American homes"
- (sports) the ratio of successful performances to opportunities
Source: Princeton WordNet 3.1
About the word AVERAGE
Yes, AVERAGE is a valid Scrabble word. If you play it, you can score 11 points in Scrabble. Because it is a 7-letter word, playing it will also earn you a bingo bonus if you use all your tiles! It is recognized as a playable word in the SOWPODS/CSW (Scrabble UK), TWL/NWL (Scrabble US), ENABLE (Words with Friends) dictionaries.
AVERAGE is a 7-letter word. It contains 4 vowels and 3 consonants.