Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

fat tail

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: 4.22 in modern English

Syllables
fat -tail
IPA
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A mass of fat stored in the rump of a beast as an adaptation to heat and harsh environmental conditions or selection by man.

noun

The relatively high probability of a relatively extreme outcome.

noun

A tail of a probability distribution with significantly higher kurtosis than a normal distribution (which has kurtosis = 0).

noun

A tail of a probability distribution with infinite variance.

Inflected Forms

fat tails (plural) fat-tail (alternative) fattail (alternative)

Phrases

fat-tailed black swan

Frequently Paired Words

fat-tailed black swan

Synonyms

heavy tail leptokurtosis

Questions

What does fat tail mean?
A mass of fat stored in the rump of a beast as an adaptation to heat and harsh environmental conditions or selection by man.

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