l

1. 1.

   being ten more than forty

   Synonymsfifty50

   Similarcardinal

Other forms of l

plural

ls·

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 l

What does l mean?

l means "a metric unit of capacity, formerly defined as the volume of one kilogram of pure water under standard conditions; now equal to 1,000 cubic centimeters (or approximately 1.75 pints)". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in l?

l has 1 syllable: l. In IPA it is /ˈɛl/.

What is another word for l?

Close synonyms include liter, litre, cubic decimeter, cubic decimetre, fifty. 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 l a common word?

l 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 l?

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