eleventy
/ɪˈlɛvənti/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.64 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Compounds with other numerals: eleventy-one (111), eleventy-six (116), eleventy first (one-hundred and eleventh), etc."
- "[Bilbo] announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday […] “Today is my one hundred and eleventh birthday: I am eleventy-one today!”"
- "without having to go back through the thousand and eleventy-three days to alter the plan"
- "Eight-Oh-Two-Dot-Eleventy Something [= 802.11a, 802.11b, etc.]"
- "No grown-up people, no babies, no girls. It was a world of boys, eleventy and a hundred strong."
- "People used to think that the first eleventy letters of the DNA message would comprise Gene 1."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ís? Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos Proto-Germanic *ainaz Proto-Indo-European *leyp- Proto-Germanic *lībaną Proto-Germanic *-lif Proto-Germanic *ainalif Proto-West Germanic *ainalif Proto-West Germanic *ainalifun Old English endleofan Middle English elleven English eleven Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥ Proto-Indo-European *-t Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥-t(-s) Proto-Germanic *tegun(dz) Proto-Germanic *teguz Proto-Germanic *tigiwiz Old English -tiġ Middle English -ty English -ty Old English hundendleftiġ English eleventy From eleven + -ty, from Old English hundendleftiġ (also spelled hundendleofantiġ, hundendlyftiġ, and hundælleftiġ). See twelfty for more. Popularized in the 20th century by J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Origin
- Source language: Old English