one-seventh

1. 1.

   one part in seven equal parts

   Synonymsseventh

   Broadercommon fraction

Questions about one-seventh

What does one-seventh mean?

one-seventh means "one part in seven equal parts".

How many syllables are in one-seventh?

one-seventh has 4 syllables: o-ne--se-venth. The stress falls on "ne-".

What is another word for one-seventh?

Close synonyms include seventh. 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 one-seventh a common word?

one-seventh 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.