cardinal number
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.89 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A word that expresses a countable quantity; a cardinal numeral.
Example Sentences
- "The smallest cardinal numbers are 0, 1, 2, and 3."
- "The cardinal number “three” can be represented as “3” or “three”."
- "This cardinal number is the smallest of the infinite cardinal numbers; it is the one to which Cantor has appropriated the Hebrew Aleph with the suffix 0, to distinguish it from larger infinite cardinals. Thus the name of the smallest of infinite cardinals is ℵ₀."
- "“Three” is a cardinal number, while “third” is an ordinal number."