five

1. 1.

   being one more than four

   Synonyms5v

   Similarcardinal

Other forms of five

plural

fives·

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 five

What does five mean?

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

How many syllables are in five?

five has 1 syllable: five. In IPA it is /ˈfaɪv/.

What is another word for five?

Close synonyms include 5, V, cinque, quint, quintet. 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 five a common word?

five 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 five?

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