individual: meaning and words from its letters
10 letters · 15 letter points · starts with I · ends with L
Meaning of individual
noun
A person considered alone, rather than as belonging to a group of people.
Example: He is an unusual individual.
A single physical human being as a legal subject, as opposed to a legal person such as a corporation.
An object, be it a thing or an agent, as contrasted to a class.
An element belonging to a population.
Listed forms: individuals, individuall.
Source: Wiktionary — individual.
adj
Relating to a single person or thing as opposed to more than one.
Example: As we can't print them all together, the individual pages will have to be printed one by one.
Intended for a single person as opposed to more than one person.
Example: individual personal pension
Not divisible without losing its identity.
Listed forms: individuall.
Source: Wiktionary — individual.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for individual.
adjective
being or characteristic of a single thing or person
- single
- case-by-case
- item-by-item
adjective
characteristic of or meant for a single person or thing
adjective
concerning one person exclusively
noun
a human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is individual in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of individual
I(1) + N(1) + D(2) + I(1) + V(4) + I(1) + D(2) + U(1) + A(1) + L(1) = 15 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of individual
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
No other single-word anagram was found in our standard list.
Shorter words from individual
67 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in individual. Showing up to 24, longest first.