8 letters · 10 points in Scrabble
verb determine the number or amount of
verb read out loud as words written numbers
adjective able to understand and use numbers
originFrom Latin numerus + -ate (adjective-forming suffix), by analogy with literate. Coined with numeracy in 1959 by the UK Committee on Education, presided over by Sir Geoffrey Crowther.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0