one-hundred-thousandth

1. 1.

   one part in a hundred thousand equal parts

   Broadercommon fraction

Questions about one-hundred-thousandth

What does one-hundred-thousandth mean?

one-hundred-thousandth means "one part in a hundred thousand equal parts".

How many syllables are in one-hundred-thousandth?

one-hundred-thousandth has 6 syllables and divides as o-ne--hun-dred--thou-sandth under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is one-hundred-thousandth a common word?

one-hundred-thousandth 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.