seven

1. 1.

   being one more than six

   Synonyms7vii

   Similarcardinal

Other forms of seven

plural

sevens·

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 seven

What does seven mean?

seven means "the cardinal number that is the sum of six and one". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in seven?

seven has 2 syllables: sev-en. The stress falls on "sev". In IPA it is /ˈsɛvən/.

What is another word for seven?

Close synonyms include 7, VII, sevener, heptad, septet. 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 seven a common word?

seven 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.