Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

forty-first

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.20 in modern English

Syllables: forty--first
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

The ordinal form of the number forty-one, describing a person or thing in position number 41 of a sequence.

noun

One of forty-one equal parts of a whole.

Example Sentences

"The answer appears on the forty-first page of the book."
"She finished forty-first in the race."
"A forty-first of 820 is 20."

Inflected Forms

forty-firsts (plural)

Synonyms

41st forty-oneth

Questions

What does forty-first mean?: The ordinal form of the number forty-one, describing a person or thing in position number 41 of a sequence.

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