Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

winner's curse

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.08 in modern English

Syllables: win-ner's curse
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The phenomenon whereby the winner of an auction is likely to overpay, since each bid represents a bidder's estimate of the item's value, and one would expect the average bid to be the most accurate.

Phrases

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Frequently Paired Words

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Questions

What does winner's curse mean?: The phenomenon whereby the winner of an auction is likely to overpay, since each bid represents a bidder's estimate of the item's value, and one would expect the average bid to be the most accurate.

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