How to pronounce score

Love words? Try a free round: no sign-up, about two minutes. Play free

What score means

noun

Most people know score in its everyday sense. Here's its other meaning.

A group or set of twenty

In a sentence: Grandpa says the old oak by the creek is four score years old, or eighty.

Where it comes from: It comes from an Old Norse word for a notch. People counting animals at a gate cut one mark on a tally for every twenty that went through.

Can you spot the real meaning? Play Wordfib

One free round, no sign-up. Wordfib shows a word and four meanings: one real, three fibs.

All Wordfib words →