Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tenfold

/ˈtɛnfoʊld/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.80 in modern English

Syllables: ten-fold
IPA: /ˈtɛnfoʊld/

11

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Ten times as much or as many.

adj

Containing ten parts.

adv

By ten times as much.

verb

To increase to ten times as much; to multiply by ten.

Example Sentences

"[F]ull of death, and fierce vvith tenfold froſt, / The long long night, incumbent o'er their heads, / Falls horrible."
"Some 460,000 Americans are behind bars for drug offenses--a tenfold increase over 1980."
"1896, William Allen Sylvester, Modern Carpentry and Building, page 142, "But, since we have increased the original value of 26 tenfold its original value, we must increase the original result tenfold : ten times 2 equal 20, the required answer.""
"I am here [in prison] for committing a crime, yet I see the state officials commit crimes that are ten fold worse and they do it without ramifications."

Etymology

From Middle English tenfold, tenfolde, from Old English tīenfeald, equivalent to ten + -fold.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: tenfold, tīenfeald
Suffix: ten

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈtɛnfoʊld/

Inflected Forms

ten-fold (alternative) tenfolds (present, singular) tenfolding (participle, present) tenfolded (participle, past) tenfolded (past)

Derived Forms

tenfoldness

Synonyms

denary decuple ten-fold

Rhymes With

penfold

Questions

How do you pronounce tenfold?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈtɛnfoʊld/.
What does tenfold mean?: Ten times as much or as many.
Where does tenfold come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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