fourteen

Other forms of fourteen

plural

fourteens·

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 fourteen

What does fourteen mean?

fourteen means "the cardinal number that is the sum of thirteen and one". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fourteen?

fourteen has 2 syllables: four-teen. The stress falls on "four". In IPA it is /ˈfɔɹˈtin/.

What is another word for fourteen?

Close synonyms include 14, XIV, 14, xiv. 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 fourteen a common word?

fourteen 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.

What rhymes with fourteen?

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