eighty

Other forms of eighty

plural

eighties·

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 eighty

What does eighty mean?

eighty means "the cardinal number that is the product of ten and eight". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in eighty?

eighty has 2 syllables: eigh-ty. The stress falls on "eigh". In IPA it is /ˈeɪti/.

What is another word for eighty?

Close synonyms include 80, LXXX, fourscore, 80, lxxx. 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 eighty a common word?

eighty 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.