xxiii

Other forms of xxiii

plural

xxiiis·

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 xxiii

What does xxiii mean?

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

How many syllables are in xxiii?

xxiii has 3 syllables: xxi-i-i. The stress falls on "xxi".

What is another word for xxiii?

Close synonyms include twenty-three, 23, twenty-three, 23. 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 xxiii a common word?

xxiii 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.