typical
Capturing the overall sense of a thing.
Adjective 4 meanings
Capturing the overall sense of a thing.
Characteristically representing something by form, group, idea or type.
Normal, average; to be expected.
Of a lower taxon, containing the type of the higher taxon.
Noun 1 meaning
Anything that is typical, normal, or standard.
“Antipsychotic drugs can be divided into typicals and atypicals.”
Etymology
From Late Latin typicalis, from Latin typicus (“typical”), from Ancient Greek τυπικός (tupikós, “of or pertaining to a type, conformable, typical”), from τύπος (túpos, “mark, impression, type”), equivalent to typic + -al and type + -ical.
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TYPICAL at a glance
TYPICAL has 7 letters and scores 14 points in Scrabble (T 1 + Y 4 + P 3 + I 1 + C 3 + A 1 + L 1) and 16 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #2,506 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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