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typical typ·i·cal

Spelling: [tip-i-kuh l]

IPA: /ˈtɪp ɪ kəl/

Typical is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 173 anagrams from letters in typical (acilpty).

Definitions for typical

adjective

1. of the nature of or serving as a type or representative specimen.
2. conforming to a particular type.
3. Biology. exemplifying most nearly the essential characteristics of a higher group in natural history, and forming the type:
4. characteristic or distinctive:
5. pertaining to, of the nature of, or serving as a type or emblem; symbolic.

Origin of typical

1605-15; Medieval Latin typicālis, equivalent to Late Latin typic(us) (Greek typikós, equivalent to týp(os) type + -ikos -ic) + Latin -ālis

Examples for typical

Working there gave him his first experience of attention (he was much younger than your typical auctioneer).

Edith Longworth could hardly be said to be a typical representative of the English girl.

In the absence of typical classrooms and curriculums, West Africans have opted for alternate methods of learning and education.

Religious leaders were there, Logan said, but not all of them were dressed in typical preacher garb.

They have been largely copied as typical examples of American humour.

The typical music video you find on YouTube is colloquially called “YouTube Poop” for a reason.

It was not the typical fur town of the Far North, but it lay at the threshold.

This 16 percent, known as the “cut,” is colorless in nature, and it is “reaped” with a typical alcohol content of 69.8 percent.

In the lives of great men the typical tragedies are likely to repeat themselves.

The fate of the ancestor had been typical of that of his descendants.