fifteen
/ˈfɪf.tiːn/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.14 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
num
The cardinal number occurring after fourteen (14) and before sixteen (16).
noun
An Irish traybake made with crushed digestive biscuits, marshmallows and glacé cherries combined with condensed milk and desiccated coconut.
Example Sentences
- "The fifteen men are, of course, the fifteen allies and the dead man's chest is the strategic principle on which their alliance is founded and which is now moribund."
- "She was, in fact, constitutionally impervious to statistics and preferred to study the be-headphoned group of fifteen or so lethargic wanderers who were taking even less notice of the remorseless squawkings than she was."
- "I first sipped an El Presidente fifteen years ago, in Havana, at a sidewalk café across from a vendor selling postcards of Che Guevara. It was revelatory."
Etymology
PIE word *pénkʷe Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe Proto-Germanic *fimf Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥ Proto-Germanic *tehun Proto-Germanic *fimftehun Anglian Old English fīftīene Middle English fiftene English fifteen From Middle English fiftene, from Old English fīftīene, fīftēne, from Proto-Germanic *fimftehun. Cognate with West Frisian fyftjin, Dutch vijftien, German fünfzehn, Danish femten. Equivalent to five + -teen.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: fiftene, fīftīene, *fimftehun
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈfɪf.tiːn/
- British English: /ˈfɪf.tiːn/
Inflected Forms
fifteenth (ordinal)
fiveteen (alternative, obsolete)
fifteene (alternative, obsolete)
fifteens (plural)