seventieth

Questions about seventieth

What does seventieth mean?

seventieth means "position 70 in a countable series of things". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in seventieth?

seventieth has 4 syllables: sev-en-ti-eth. The stress falls on "sev". In IPA it is /ˈsɛvəntiɪθ/.

What is another word for seventieth?

Close synonyms include 70th. 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 seventieth a common word?

seventieth 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.