national average

noun

"national-average" is a 15-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“national average” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
16
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The average value for something across a particular nation.

Corpus desk

Index EN-national-average · national average · English

national average · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 16 letters
  • VOW-8 8 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "N" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Key facts for national average
PropertyValue
Headwordnational average
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “national average” in English

national averageranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

national average is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The average value for something across a particular nation.".

No generated misspelling entries exist for national average in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is national average, spelled N-A-T-I-O-N-A-L- -A-V-E-R-A-G-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    The average value for something across a particular nation.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how national average appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. House prices in London are higher than the national average.

This word in other languages

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "national average"?
"national average" is spelled N-A-T-I-O-N-A-L- -A-V-E-R-A-G-E.
What does "national average" mean?
As a noun, "national average" means: The average value for something across a particular nation.
What language does "national average" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list