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"valuation" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often appraisal (9 letters).
Definitions
an appraisal of the value of something
Word origin
From Middle French valuation, noun of action from valuer, from Old French valoir.
Used in a sentence
“The tax assessor put them in fourteen valuation groups ranging from one two-story brick house and two one-and-a-half-story houses to the largest groups of eighteen two-story houses and twenty-four one-story bungalows.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Estimated worth”9 letters
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