Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

four-and-twenty

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.60 in modern English

Syllables: four-and-twen-ty
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

num

Twenty-four. (24)

Archaic

Example Sentences

"Ouer the firſt companie the firſt month Ieſboam was chiefe the ſonne of Zabdiel, and vnder him foure and twentie thouſand."
"Sing a Song of Sixpence, / A bag full of Rye, / Four and twenty Naughty Boys,/ Baked in a Pye."
""He was four-and-twenty the 8th of last June,[...]""
"Jamba has removed from Marlowe's Doctor Faustus all but the barest of essentials - even half its title, leaving us with an 80-minute hurtle through Faustus's four and twenty borrowed years on earth."

Usage

Archaic

Inflected Forms

four and twenty (alternative)

Questions

What does four-and-twenty mean?: Twenty-four. (24)

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