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Is average a Scrabble word?

Yes, average is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 11 points in Scrabble.

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What is the meaning of average?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (statistics) Any measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode.Examples: "You need to show some averages in an executive summary, show some samples of raw data in the document body, and move the full raw data to an appendix."; "In conclusion, it may savour of anticlimax to mention that from May 22 the famous "Sud Express," over the same route, has been covering the 359.7 miles from Paris Austerlitz to Bordeaux in 4 hr. 59 min. daily, at a start-to-stop average of 72.2 m.p.h., and that the northbound train has been taking 5 hr. 7 min. for an average of 70.3."

2. (statistics) Any measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode.Examples: "The average of 10, 20 and 24 is (10 + 20 + 24)/3 = 18."; "But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short."Synonyms: mean

3. (law, marine) Financial loss due to damage to transported goods; compensation for damage or loss.Examples: "Historically, the courts have allowed a general average claim only where the loss occurred as a result of the ship being in immediate peril.[…]The court awarded the carrier the general average claim. It noted that “a ship′s master should not be discouraged from taking timely action to avert a disaster,” and need not be in actual peril to claim general average."

4. (sports) An indication of a player's ability calculated from his scoring record, etc.Examples: "batting average"

adj (English)

1. (not comparable) Constituting or relating to the average.Examples: "The average age of the participants was 18.5."Synonyms: av., ave., avg., expectation, meannot-comparable

2. (informal) Not outstanding, not good, banal; bad or poor.Examples: "The graphics, sound, and most everything else are all very average. However, the main thing that brings this game down are the controls - they feel very clumsy and awkward at times."; "But what the vast majority of the populace doesn′t realise is the fact that he′s only on TV because he became famous from one case, Winona Ryder's, which, by the way, he lost because he′s only a very average attorney."; "In the piano stool there was a stack of music, mostly sentimental ballads intended to be sung by people with very average voices accompanied by not very competent pianists."Synonyms: ordinary, uninspiringinformal

verb (English)

1. (transitive) To compute the average of, especially the arithmetic mean.Examples: "If you average 10, 20 and 24, you get 18."transitive

2. (transitive) Over a period of time or across members of a population, to have or generate a mean value of.Examples: "The daily high temperature last month averaged 15°C."; "I averaged 75% in my examinations this year."; "The five roller-bearing A1s are now averaging 120,000 miles between shopping; this figure is an improvement of about 50 per cent on the norm of other ex-L.N.E. Pacific types."transitive

3. (transitive) To divide among a number, according to a given proportion.Examples: "to average a loss"transitive

4. (intransitive) To be, generally or on average.Examples: "Gulls average much larger than terns, with stouter build […]"intransitive

noun (English)

1. (UK, law, obsolete) The service that a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the animals of the tenant, such as the transportation of wheat, turf, etc.UKobsolete

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "average"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "average"?

Scrabble
11 points
A1
V4
E1
R1
A1
G2
E1
Words With Friends
13 points
A1
V4
E1
R1
A1
G3
E1

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