elo rating
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.76 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A metric indicating the relative skill level of a player in zero-sum games such as chess.
Example Sentences
- "Thus, for analyses such as Elo rating, where the order in which contests occurs matters, one must resort to creating a set of randomly shuffled contest sequences to be able to assess the effects of temporal order."
- "“You're pretty good at this game,” Lee said.¶ “Got an Elo rating over twenty-six hundred.”¶ “Elo? What's that?”¶ “The FIDE uses it to rank players.”¶ “FIDE?”¶ “Fédération Internationale des Échecs,” Cam said, speaking in an exaggerated French accent."
- "In layman’s terms, any player with a higher Elo rating will have a better chance of winning a game of chess against an opponent with a lower Elo rating."