fifty

Other forms of fifty

plural

fifties·

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 fifty

What does fifty mean?

fifty means "the cardinal number that is the product of ten and five". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fifty?

fifty has 2 syllables: fif-ty. The stress falls on "fif". In IPA it is /ˈfɪfti/.

What is another word for fifty?

Close synonyms include 50, L, fifty dollar bill, 50, l. 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 fifty a common word?

fifty 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.