backwardation
Backwardation can refer to the market condition wherein the price of a forward or futures contract is trading below the expected spot price at contract maturity.
Length
13
Scrabble
25
WWF
28
Starts
BA
Ends
ION
Difficulty
Hard
Dictionary
What Does “BACKWARDATION” Mean?
backwardation has 1 documented sense across noun.
Noun
1 sensethe market condition wherein the price of a forward or futures contract is trading below the expected spot price at contract maturity.
“In Treatise on Money (1930, chapter 29), economist John Maynard Keynes argued that in commodity markets, backwardation is not an abnormal market situation, but rather arises naturally as ‘normal backwardation’ from the fact that producers of commodities are more prone to hedge their price risk than consumers.”
Scrabble Score
25
Letters
13
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
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Definition
the market condition wherein the price of a forward or futures contract is trading below the expected spot price at contract maturity.
Length
13 letters
Starts With
B
Ends With
N
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Letters
B, A, C, K, W, A, R, D, A, T, I, O, N
Use Case
Useful for Scrabble, Wordle, crosswords, anagrams, and other word games.
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Scrabble Strategy
★★★★★BACKWARDATION has a Scrabble score of 25. It is useful for balancing a rack and building steady board position.
Wordle Strategy
★★☆☆☆BACKWARDATION is not five letters, so it is not a standard Wordle answer, but its letter pattern can still help with word analysis.
Crossword Strategy
★★★☆☆BACKWARDATION can be useful in crossword solving because it has a clear starting letter, ending letter, and 13-letter structure.
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Unique Letters
11
Repeated Letters
2
Highest Value Letter
K
Letter Pattern
ABCDEBFGBHIJK
CV Pattern
CVCCCVCCVCVVC
Vowel Share
38%
Consonant Share
62%
Bigrams
BA, AC, CK, KW, WA, AR, RD, DA, AT, TI, IO, ON
Trigrams
BAC, ACK, CKW, KWA, WAR, ARD, RDA, DAT, ATI, TIO, ION
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