Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

seventy-four

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.77 in modern English

Syllables: sev-en-ty--four
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

5

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

num

The cardinal number immediately following seventy-three and preceding seventy-five.

noun

A ship having seventy-four guns.

Example Sentences

"the ocean stream / Here and there studded with a seventy-four [...]."
"For all the world like a seventy-four of the line, / Riding the swell and firing off Finisterre."

Inflected Forms

seventy-fours (plural)

Synonyms

74 LXXIV LXXIIII

Questions

What does seventy-four mean?: The cardinal number immediately following seventy-three and preceding seventy-five.

How to pronounce seventy-four

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