xvii

Other forms of xvii

plural

xviis·

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 xvii

What does xvii mean?

xvii means "the cardinal number that is the sum of sixteen and one". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in xvii?

xvii has 2 syllables: xvi-i. The stress falls on "xvi".

What is another word for xvii?

Close synonyms include seventeen, 17, seventeen, 17. 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 xvii a common word?

xvii 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.