fourscore

Other forms of fourscore

plural

fourscores·

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 fourscore

What does fourscore mean?

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

How many syllables are in fourscore?

fourscore has 2 syllables: four-score. The stress falls on "four".

What is another word for fourscore?

Close synonyms include eighty, 80, LXXX, eighty, 80. 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 fourscore a common word?

fourscore 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.