Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hundred thousand

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.37 in modern English

Syllables: hun-dred t-hou-sand
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

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The cardinal number 100,000.

Example Sentences

"Madame Chevalier, who with a word could have caused her aged mother to have been brought in triumph to Petersburg, and supported there in ease and abundance; who reckoned her fortune by hundred thousands of rubles, sent her indigent parent two hundred rubles."
"Mr. Greenshields was the contractor selected to build the embankment, and over a hundred thousand tons of marl and moss compacted with brushwood were used in its construction."

Inflected Forms

hundred thousands (plural)

Phrases

hundred-thousandaire hundred-thousandfold hundred-thousandth hundreds and thousands

Frequently Paired Words

hundreds and thousands

Synonyms

lakh one hundred thousand 100000

Questions

What does hundred thousand mean?: The cardinal number 100,000.

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