nineteen

Other forms of nineteen

plural

nineteens·

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 nineteen

What does nineteen mean?

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

How many syllables are in nineteen?

nineteen has 2 syllables: nine-teen. The stress falls on "nine". In IPA it is /ˈnaɪnˈtin/.

What is another word for nineteen?

Close synonyms include 19, XIX, 19, xix. 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 nineteen a common word?

nineteen 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 nineteen?

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