forty

Other forms of forty

plural

forties·

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 forty

What does forty mean?

forty means "the cardinal number that is the product of ten and four". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in forty?

forty has 2 syllables: for-ty. The stress falls on "for". In IPA it is /ˈfɔɹti/.

What is another word for forty?

Close synonyms include 40, XL, 40, xl, twoscore. 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 forty a common word?

forty 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.