Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

thirty-eleven

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.93 in modern English

Syllables: thir-ty-eleven
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Very many; several dozen; quite a lot.

American usage; Informal

Example Sentences

""Comfortable!" fairly shrieked Sophrania. "Yes, comfortable to you because you don't have to climb those ladder-like stairs... nor have you done the distance from the kitchen to the front door thirty-eleven times a day...""
""Thirty-eleven... Papa, what comes after thirty eleven?" "There is no thirty-eleven," he said gruffly. "It goes thirty-eight, thirty-nine, forty, forty-one." "And then what?""

Etymology

From humorous use of eleven to continue counting the thirties.

Usage

American usage
Informal

Inflected Forms

thirty-leven (alternative) thirty-'leven (alternative)

Phrases

twenty-eleven forty-eleven fifty-eleven sixty-eleven seventy-eleven eighty-eleven ninety-eleven

Frequently Paired Words

twenty-eleven forty-eleven fifty-eleven sixty-eleven seventy-eleven eighty-eleven ninety-eleven

Synonyms

countless legion eighty-eleven eleventeen eleventy feelefold fifty-eleven forty-eleven manifold many manyfold morefold

Questions

What does thirty-eleven mean?: Very many; several dozen; quite a lot.
Where does thirty-eleven come from?: From humorous use of eleven to continue counting the thirties.

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