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SCORE Scrabble score: 7 points from five tiles, with three anagrams and ten one-letter neighbors.
Noun 4 meanings
The total number of goals, points, runs, etc. earned by a participant in a game.
“The player with the highest score is the winner.”
The number of points accrued by each of the participants in a game, expressed as a ratio or a series of numbers.
“The score is 8-1 even though it's not even half-time!”
The performance of an individual or group on an examination or test, expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a grade.
“The test scores for this class were high.”
Twenty (20).
Verb 4 meanings
To cut a notch or a groove in a surface.
“The baker scored the cake so that the servers would know where to slice it.”
To record the tally of points for a game, a match, or an examination.
To obtain something desired.
To rate; to evaluate the quality of.
“Critics scored the game 92%.”
Etymology
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.
Similar and opposite words
SCORE means the points, goals, or runs earned in a game; it can also mean a test grade or a result shown as a ratio. The word is common in English, and it is both an accepted Wordle answer and an allowed guess. Its frequency count is 18,120, with a rank of 1,532.
SCORE at a glance
- SCORE has five letters and earns 7 Scrabble points before board premiums.
- The C is worth 3 points; S, O, R, and E are each worth 1.
- Cores, corse, and ceros use the same five letters in different orders.
- Store, shore, and scope are among SCORE’s ten one-letter neighbors.
What is the SCORE Scrabble score?
SCORE is worth 7 points in Scrabble: S adds 1, C adds 3, O adds 1, R adds 1, and E adds 1. The C contributes nearly half the base total, so placing that tile on a premium square matters more than boosting one of the four single-point letters.
The 7-point total counts the face values only. A word multiplier changes the value of the whole play, while a letter multiplier boosts the tile on that square. Keep the C’s position in mind when weighing a placement; a high-value tile on a premium square can be worth more than simply extending the word.
For word-game checks, SCORE has a useful double status: it is an allowed guess and a Wordle answer. That does not make it the answer for any particular game; it only confirms both forms of play accept the word.
What does SCORE mean, and what resembles it?
In a match, a score is the total earned by a player or team; in an exam, it is a grade. SCORE also names a result expressed as a ratio or series of numbers. Those related senses share one idea: a result recorded in a count or rating.
Three anagrams rearrange SCORE’s letters: CORES, CORSE, and CEROS. Its ten one-letter neighbors include STORE, SHORE, SCOPE, and SCARE. Compare those pairs when checking a puzzle: STORE changes C to T, while SCOPE changes R to P.
SCORE Scrabble score is 7, but the word’s strongest clue may be its familiar meaning rather than its tile total. The list of neighbors is not a list of synonyms: STORE and SHORE differ by one letter, yet they do not mean the same thing as SCORE.
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