Definitions For Common

noun

  • The common people
  • A class composed of persons lacking clerical or noble rank
  • A pasture subject to common use
  • A piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area

adjective

  • Having no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual
  • Belonging to or participated in by a community as a whole; public

adjective

  • Commonly encountered
  • Being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language
  • Of or associated with the great masses of people
  • To be expected; standard
  • Lacking refinement or cultivation or taste
  • Common to or shared by two or more parties
  • Of low or inferior quality or value

verb

  • A public area or park usually in the center of a town or city
  • A place where meals are served at a school, college, etc.

Is Commons a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
13
Words with Friends
17

The word Common is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Common in a Sentence

  • They have a common ancestor.
  • The people on the island have a sense of common identity.
  • It is common practice for one town's fire department to help another town when there is a big fire.
  • The campus has several dining commons.

Synonyms for Common

Antonyms for Commons

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