half a dozen

Questions about half a dozen

What does half a dozen mean?

half a dozen means "the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one".

What is another word for half a dozen?

Close synonyms include six, 6, VI, sixer, sise. 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 half a dozen a common word?

half a dozen 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.