thousandth
/ˈθaʊzən(d)θ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.55 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
The ordinal numeral form of one thousand; last in order of a series of a thousand; next after the nine hundred and ninety-ninth.
noun
One of a thousand equal parts of a whole.
Example Sentences
- "“Ah, Alan,” murmured Dorian, with a sigh, “I wish you had a thousandth part of the pity for me that I have for you.”"
- "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
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂-? Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥? Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥ Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm? Proto-Indo-European *tuHsont- Proto-Germanic *þūsundī Proto-West Germanic *þūsundi Old English þūsend Middle English thousend English thousand English -th English thousandth From thousand + -th (suffix forming an ordinal number).