fifty
/ˈfɪfti/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.29 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
num
The cardinal number occurring after forty-nine and before fifty-one.
Example Sentences
- "It was just fifty children that Selene bore to Endymion. Are not the innumerable waves typified by the fifty Nereïds? And did not Priam have fifty sons and fifty daughters?"
- "Searching again, he noticed something that had eluded him before: a single flower, a gentian, blooming not fifty feet in front of them, where, by all rights, there ought to be solid rock."
- "Accounts with between fifty thousand and two hundred thousand followers are considered “microinfluencers,” and tend to have higher engagement rates—that is, a larger share of their followers like, favorite, or comment on their posts—than those with millions of followers."
- "Do you want small bills or are fifties OK?"
- "‘If you shoot him I’ll give you fifty pounds.’ ‘All right!’ The driver laughed. ‘I’ll do my best to earn that fifty!’"
Etymology
PIE word *pénkʷe Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe Proto-Germanic *fimf Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥ Proto-Indo-European *-t Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥-t(-s) Proto-Germanic *tegun(dz) Proto-Germanic *tigiwiz Proto-Germanic *fimf tigiwiz Old English fīftiġ Middle English fifty English fifty From Middle English fifty, from Old English fīftiġ, from Proto-Germanic *fimf tigiwiz (“five tens”). By surface analysis, five + -ty.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: fifty, fīftiġ, *fimf tigiwiz
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈfɪfti/
- British English: /ˈfɪfti/