score
/skoɹ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.83 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The number of points accrued by each of the participants in a game, expressed as a ratio or a series of numbers.
noun
The performance of an individual or group on an examination or test, expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a grade.
noun
Twenty (20).
noun
Twenty (20).
noun
Twenty (20).
noun
Twenty (20).
Example Sentences
- "The player with the highest score is the winner."
- "The score is 8-1 even though it's not even half-time!"
- "The test scores for this class were high."
- "The study not only showed IQ variance between children the same parents, but because the authors had the IQ scores of various parents, it demonstrated that parents with higher IQs tended to have more kids, ruling out the dysgenic fertility theory as a driver of falling IQ scores and highlighting the role of environmental factors instead."
- "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."
- "I went on trying for fish along the western bank down the river, but only small trout rose at my flies, and a score was the total catch."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- Proto-Germanic *skurō Old Norse skorder. Old English scoru Middle English score English score From Middle English score, skore, schore, from Old English scoru (“notch; tally; score”), from Old Norse skor, from Proto-Germanic *skurō (“incision; tear; rift”), which is related to *skeraną (“to cut”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“cut”). Cognate with Icelandic skora, Swedish skåra, Danish skår. Related to shear. For the sense “twenty”: The mark on a tally made by drovers for every twenty beasts passing through a tollgate.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /skoɹ/
- British English: /skɔː/
Usage
- British usage
- Slang
- American usage
- Transitive verb
- Intransitive verb
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Sports.
Inflected Forms
scores (plural)
scores (present, singular)
scoring (participle, present)
scored (participle, past)
scored (past)
no-table-tags (table tags)
glossary (inflection template)
scored (first person, past)
scorest (archaic, present)
scored (past, second person)
scoredst (archaic, past)
scoreth (archaic, present)