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bat five hundred

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.14 in modern English

Syllables
bat -five hun-dred
IPA
27
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To be successful half of the time; to have a success rate of 50%.

Etymology

From the practice of reckoning the batting average of a hitter in baseball in thousandths.

Inflected Forms

bats five hundred (present, singular) batting five hundred (participle, present) batted five hundred (participle, past) batted five hundred (past)

Phrases

bat a thousand

Frequently Paired Words

bat a thousand

Questions

What does bat five hundred mean?
To be successful half of the time; to have a success rate of 50%.
Where does bat five hundred come from?
From the practice of reckoning the batting average of a hitter in baseball in thousandths.

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