forty-five
/ˌfɔɹtiˈfaɪv/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.18 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
num
Cardinal number after forty-four and before forty-six.
Example Sentences
- "The robber brandished a forty-five at the cashier to make her empty the till for him."
- "The phoenix he helped create Out of control boy without a dad Shot the gun that startled my life While I drove him with a forty-five"
- "Kingshouse, in the Blackmount, and Finlarig Castle, at the west end of Loch Tay, were both garrisoned during the ’45."
- "In the sharpest sense, the Forty-five was not a war between Scots and Englishmen, but a civil war."
- "Space does not permit an account of the assimilation of Scotland to England in the years between the Forty-five and our own time […]."
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌfɔɹtiˈfaɪv/
- British English: /ˌfɔːtiˈfaɪv/