seventy

Other forms of seventy

plural

seventies·

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 seventy

What does seventy mean?

seventy means "the cardinal number that is the product of ten and seven". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in seventy?

seventy has 3 syllables: sev-en-ty. The stress falls on "sev". In IPA it is /ˈsɛvənti/.

What is another word for seventy?

Close synonyms include 70, LXX, 70, lxx. 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 seventy a common word?

seventy is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.