words per minute

1. 1.

   the rate at which words are produced (as in speaking or typing)

   Synonymswpm

   Broaderrate

Questions about words per minute

What does words per minute mean?

words per minute means "the rate at which words are produced (as in speaking or typing)".

What is another word for words per minute?

Close synonyms include wpm. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is words per minute a common word?

words per minute is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.