hundred

Other forms of hundred

plural

hundreds·

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 hundred

What does hundred mean?

hundred means "ten 10s". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hundred?

hundred has 2 syllables: hun-dred. The stress falls on "hun". In IPA it is /ˈhʌndɹəd/.

What is another word for hundred?

Close synonyms include 100, C, century, one C, one hundred. 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 hundred a common word?

hundred 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.