fifteen

Other forms of fifteen

plural

fifteens·

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 fifteen

What does fifteen mean?

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

How many syllables are in fifteen?

fifteen has 2 syllables: fif-teen. The stress falls on "teen". In IPA it is /fɪfˈtin/.

What is another word for fifteen?

Close synonyms include 15, XV, 15, xv. 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 fifteen a common word?

fifteen is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. 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 fifteen?

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