Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

twenty-eleven

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.01 in modern English

Syllables: twen-ty-eleven
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Very many; several dozen; quite a lot.

American usage; Informal

Example Sentences

"I ask dem for some sup; dey give me littel bit of bread and sheese—I say I was hope I shall be put to bed agreeable—dey put me in a garret! and all de night twenty-eleven rats shall run 'bout, as if to play at a blindman's bluff."

Etymology

From humorous use of eleven to continue counting the twenties.

Usage

American usage
Informal

Inflected Forms

twenty-leven (alternative) twenty-'leven (alternative)

Phrases

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

Frequently Paired Words

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

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