hundredth
/ˈhʌndɹə(d)θ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.81 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
The ordinal form of the number one hundred.
Example Sentences
- "This being Woodie Guthrie’s a hundredth birthday, in the centerpiece of this year’s South by Southwest Conference, I’m also gonna talk a little bit about my musical development and where it intersected with Woodie’s and why."
- "We humans are so stuck in the middle of the cosmic scales — in average height, one-hundredth of one-septillionth (10^-24) the size of the observable universe, and with typical life spans of a couple octillion attoseconds. And an attosecond is an eternity compared with the lifetime of the elusive Higgs boson, a subatomic particle that exists for one-thousandth of an attosecond before decaying."
Etymology
From Middle English hundred (“hundredth”); equivalent to and remodelled after hundred + -th (ordinal suffix), displacing Old English hundtēontigoþa.