odd
Differing from what is usual, ordinary or expected.
Adjective 4 meanings
Differing from what is usual, ordinary or expected.
“She slept in, which was very odd.”
Without a corresponding mate in a pair or set; unmatched; (of a pair or set) mismatched.
“Optimistically, he had a corner of a drawer for odd socks.”
Left over, remaining after the rest have been paired or grouped.
“I'm the odd one out.”
Left over or remaining (as a small amount) after counting, payment, etc.
Noun 2 meanings
Something left over, not forming part of a set.
“I’ve got three complete sets of these trading cards for sale, plus a few dozen odds.”
An odd number.
“So let’s see. There are two evens here and three odds.”
Etymology
From Middle English odde, od (“odd (not even); leftover after division into pairs”), from Old Norse oddi (“odd, third or additional number; triangle”), from oddr (“point of a weapon”), from Proto-Germanic *uzdaz (“point”), from Proto-Indo-European *wes- (“to stick, prick, pierce, sting”) + *dʰeh₁- (“to set, place”).
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ODD at a glance
ODD has 3 letters and scores 5 points in Scrabble (O 1 + D 2 + D 2) and 5 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #3,446 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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