eight

1. 1.

   being one more than seven

   Synonyms8viii

   Similarcardinal

Other forms of eight

plural

eights·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about eight

What does eight mean?

eight means "the cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in eight?

eight has 1 syllable: eight. In IPA it is /ˈeɪt/.

What is another word for eight?

Close synonyms include 8, VIII, eighter, eighter from Decatur, octad. 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 eight a common word?

eight is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with eight?

95 words rhyme with eight. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.