four

1. 1.

   being one more than three

   Synonyms4iv

   Similarcardinal

Other forms of four

plural

fours·

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 four

What does four mean?

four means "the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in four?

four has 1 syllable: four. In IPA it is /ˈfɔɹ/.

What is another word for four?

Close synonyms include 4, IV, tetrad, quatern, quaternion. 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 four a common word?

four 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 four?

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