Past tense of score
regular verb
The past tense of score is scored. The past participle is also scored.
Forms of score
| Base form (V1) | score /skɔː/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | scored /skɔː(ɹ)d/ |
| Past participle (V3) | scored /skɔː(ɹ)d/ |
| Present participle | scoring |
| Third person singular | scores /skɔːz/ |
Scored in a sentence
- The baker scored the cake so that the servers would know where to slice it.
- After all, I've scored by it."1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 50”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC
- He might have scored, but it was a dirty trick that won him the penalty.From the entry dirty
- England scored a goal at the death to even the score at one all.From the entry death
- Dallas scored on what had seemed until then like a nothing play.From the entry nothing
Meaning of score
- noun The total number of goals, points, runs, etc. earned by a participant in a game.
- noun The number of points accrued by each of the participants in a game, expressed as a ratio or a series of numbers.
- noun The performance of an individual or group on an examination or test, expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a grade.
Questions about the past tense of score
- What is the past tense of score?
- The past tense of score is scored.
- What is the past participle of score?
- The past participle of score is scored.
- Is score a regular or irregular verb?
- Score is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: score (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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