five-year-old

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   five years of age

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Questions about five-year-old

What does five-year-old mean?

five-year-old means "five years of age".

How many syllables are in five-year-old?

five-year-old has 4 syllables: fi-ve-y-ea-r-old. The stress falls on "ve-y".

Is five-year-old a common word?

five-year-old 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.