fifties

Other forms of fifties

plural

fiftieses·

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 fifties

What does fifties mean?

fifties means "the decade from 1950 to 1959". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fifties?

fifties has 2 syllables: fif-ties. The stress falls on "fif". In IPA it is /ˈfɪftiz/.

What is another word for fifties?

Close synonyms include 1950s, mid-fifties. 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 fifties a common word?

fifties is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.