KURTOSIS is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. KURTOSIS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept KURTOSIS?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 36 / 100
Our own measure of how useful KURTOSIS is to know. It scores 12 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for KURTOSIS
No single letter turns KURTOSIS into another word.
How KURTOSIS scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in KURTOSIS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| k | 1 | 1 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| s | 2 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so KURTOSIS has to be built on the board across turns.
What does KURTOSIS mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A statistical measure of how sharply a distribution peaks and how heavy its tails are.
Analysts check kurtosis to see whether extreme values turn up more often than a normal bell curve would predict. A high figure warns of fat tails, while a low one suggests a flatter spread. It is usually read together with skewness.
How KURTOSIS is used
Found in statistics and finance when describing the shape of a data distribution.
- The kurtosis of the returns was far above that of a normal curve.
- A low kurtosis told the team that outliers were rare.
- Students learn to compute kurtosis after mean and variance.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of KURTOSIS and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with KURTOSIS
1 longer words begin with KURTOSIS.
Shorter words from the letters in KURTOSIS
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Common questions about KURTOSIS
- Is KURTOSIS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts KURTOSIS, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is KURTOSIS worth?
- KURTOSIS is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does KURTOSIS mean?
- A statistical measure of how sharply a distribution peaks and how heavy its tails are.
- What letters can be added to KURTOSIS?
- No single letter can be added to KURTOSIS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of KURTOSIS:
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