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Questions about 17

What does 17 mean?

17 means "the cardinal number that is the sum of sixteen and one". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for 17?

Close synonyms include seventeen, XVII, seventeen, xvii. 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 17 a common word?

17 is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.