average
av·er·age/ˈæv.ɚ.ɪd͡ʒ/noun, adjective, verb
average is spelled A-V-E-R-A-G-E, 3 syllables: av·er·age. The wrong spelling people search most is avarage: about 70 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 78 of all searches for the word. Average is a noun meaning “Any measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode”. The plural of average is averages.
How many letters and syllables are in average?
| Letters | 7: A-V-E-R-A-G-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: av·er·age |
| In writing | 145 times per million words; the 711th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, avarage, about 70 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell average?
Average is spelled A-V-E-R-A-G-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 78 of the searches for average in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is average?
Average appears 145 times per million words in written English, the 711th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce average?
- UK /ˈæv.(ə.)ɹɪd͡ʒ/
- US /ˈæv.ɚ.ɪd͡ʒ/
- US /ˈæv.ɹɪd͡ʒ/
Average has 3 syllables, split av·er·age in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-average.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of average
- averages plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- more average comparative
- most average superlative
- av.
- ave.
- avg.
- averaging participle, present
- averaged participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does average mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Any measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode.
You need to show some averages in an executive summary, show some samples of raw data in the document body, and move the full raw data to an appendix.
- 2
The arithmetic mean.
The average of 10, 20 and 24 is (10 + 20 + 24)/3 = 18.
- 3
A financial loss due to damage to transported goods; compensation for damage or loss.
- 4
datedProportional or equitable distribution of financial expense.
- 5
obsoleteCustoms duty or similar charge payable on transported goods.
- 6
An indication of a player's ability calculated from his scoring record, etc.
batting average
- 7
UKobsoleteThe feudal service that a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the animals of the tenant, such as the transportation of wheat, turf, etc.
adjective
- 1
Constituting or relating to the average.
The average age of the participants was 18.5.
- 2
Neither very good nor very bad; rated somewhere in the middle of all others in the same category.
I soon found I was only an average chess player.
- 3
Typical.
The average family will not need the more expensive features of this product.
- 4
informalNot outstanding, not good, banal; bad or poor.
verb
- 1
To compute the average of, especially the arithmetic mean.
If you average 10, 20, and 24, you get 18.
- 2
Over a period of time or across members of a population, to have or generate a mean value of.
The daily high temperature last month averaged 15°C.
- 3
To divide among a number, according to a given proportion.
to average a loss
- 4
To be, generally or on average.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate average?
Wiktionary records 3 abbreviations of average: av, ave, avg..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Average in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | moyenne , moyen |
| German | Durchschnitt, arithmetisches Mittel, Mittelwert , durchschnittlich |
| Portuguese | média , médio , equilibrado |
| Spanish | promedio, media , medio , ni fu ni fa, mediocre , común y corriente |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.