Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

weird number

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.75 in modern English

Syllables: weird num-ber
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A natural number that is abundant but not semiperfect; one for which the sum of the proper divisors (including 1 but not itself) is greater than the number, but no subset of those divisors sums to the number itself.

Inflected Forms

weird numbers (plural)

Questions

What does weird number mean?: A natural number that is abundant but not semiperfect; one for which the sum of the proper divisors (including 1 but not itself) is greater than the number, but no subset of those divisors sums to the number itself.

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