rescore

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verb

To score again; to assign new marks to.

“Our team lost five points after the rescore.”

OriginEnglish score ← Middle English score ← Old English scoru →
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Meanings

verbrescore (third-person singular simple present rescores, present participle rescoring, simple past and past participle rescored)

present singular third person rescores · participle present rescoring · participle past rescored · past rescored

  1. transitiveTo score again; to assign new marks to.

    The tests have to be rescored because of glaring mistakes made during grading.

    1 more example

    The board discovered the problems after a couple of students paid to have their tests rescored by hand.

    2007 August 25, Karen W. Arenson, “Companies Agree to Pay to Settle SAT Error Suit”, in New York Times
  2. transitiveTo arrange (music) again.
nounrescore (plural rescores)

plural rescores

  1. An instance of rescoring.

    Our team lost five points after the rescore.

Origin

  1. Proto-Italic*wre-
  2. Latinre-
  3. Old Frenchre-
  4. Middle Englishre-
  5. Englishre-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*(s)ker-
  7. Proto-Germanic*skurō
  8. Old Norseskor
  9. Old Englishscoru
  10. Middle Englishscore
  11. Englishscore
  12. Englishrescore

From re- + score.

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APA

rescore. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rescore

MLA

“rescore.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rescore. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “rescore,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rescore.

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