three

1. 1.

   being one more than two

   Synonyms3iii

   Similarcardinal

Other forms of three

plural

threes·

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 three

What does three mean?

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

How many syllables are in three?

three has 1 syllable: three. In IPA it is /ˈθɹi/.

What is another word for three?

Close synonyms include 3, III, trio, threesome, tierce. 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 three a common word?

three 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.

What rhymes with three?

1 word rhymes with three. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.