numbers

Other forms of numbers

plural

numberses·

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 numbers

What does numbers mean?

numbers means "the fourth book of the Old Testament; contains a record of the number of Israelites who followed Moses out of Egypt". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in numbers?

numbers has 2 syllables: num-bers. The stress falls on "num". In IPA it is /ˈnʌmbɚz/.

What is another word for numbers?

Close synonyms include Book of Numbers, numbers pool, numbers game, numbers racket. 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 numbers a common word?

numbers 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.