thirty-second

Questions about thirty-second

What does thirty-second mean?

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

How many syllables are in thirty-second?

thirty-second has 4 syllables: thir-ty--se-cond. The stress falls on "ty-".

What is another word for thirty-second?

Close synonyms include one-thirty-second, thirty-second part, 32nd. 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 thirty-second a common word?

thirty-second 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.