forty-ninth

1. 1.

   the ordinal number of forty-nine in counting order

   Synonyms49th

   Similarordinal

Questions about forty-ninth

What does forty-ninth mean?

forty-ninth means "the ordinal number of forty-nine in counting order".

How many syllables are in forty-ninth?

forty-ninth has 3 syllables: for-ty--ninth. The stress falls on "for".

What is another word for forty-ninth?

Close synonyms include 49th. 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-ninth a common word?

forty-ninth is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.