five
/ˈfaːv/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 5.45 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
num
Describing a group or set with five elements.
noun
A banknote with a denomination of five units of currency.
noun
noun
A short rest, especially one of five minutes.
Example Sentences
- "The r-stems had apparently been reduced to the five nuclear kinship terms that still survive in Modern English."
- "The Texas Rangers investigation is one of at least five announced investigations targeting EPIC or EPIC City. Those include investigations led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the Texas Workforce Commission, the Texas State Board of Securities and the Texas Funeral Service Commission."
- "He wrote a five followed by four zeroes."
- "Can anyone here change a five?"
- "All the fives are over there in the corner, next to the fours."
- "The fives and sixes will have a snack first, then the older kids."
Etymology
PIE word *pénkʷe Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe Proto-Germanic *fimf Proto-West Germanic *fimf Old English fīf Middle English fyf English five From Middle English fyf, fyve, from Old English fīf (“five”), from Proto-West Germanic *fimf (“five”), from Proto-Germanic *fimf (“five”), from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe. See also West Frisian fiif, Dutch vijf, German fünf, Norwegian and Swedish fem, Icelandic fimm; also Welsh pump, Latin quinque, Tocharian A päñ, Tocharian B piś, Lithuanian penki, Russian пять (pjatʹ), Albanian pesë, pêsë, Ancient Greek πέντε (pénte), Armenian հինգ (hing), Persian پنج (panj), Sanskrit पञ्च (páñca). Doublet of cinque, fin (“five currency units”), finnuf, pimp (“five”), ponzu, punch (“beverage”), and sengi (“currency”); related to Pompeii. The nasal *m in Proto-Germanic *fimf was lost through a sound change known as the Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈfaːv/
Usage
- British usage
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Phrases
Table of cardinal numbers 0 to 9 in various languages
after-five
alert five
and I claim my five pounds
back five
bat five hundred
big five
category five