sixty-fourth

Questions about sixty-fourth

What does sixty-fourth mean?

sixty-fourth means "one part in sixty-four equal parts". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sixty-fourth?

sixty-fourth has 3 syllables: six-ty--fourth. The stress falls on "six".

What is another word for sixty-fourth?

Close synonyms include one-sixty-fourth, 64th. 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 sixty-fourth a common word?

sixty-fourth 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.