Definitions for five

five five

Spelling: [fahyv]
IPA: /faɪv/

Five is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 21 anagrams from letters in five (efiv).

Definitions for five

noun

  1. a cardinal number, four plus one.
  2. a symbol for this number, as 5 or V.
  3. a set of this many persons or things.
  4. a playing card, die face, or half of a domino face with five pips.
  5. Informal. a five-dollar bill:

Idioms

  1. take five, Informal. to take a brief respite.

adjective

  1. amounting to five in number.

Origin of five

before 1000; 1925-30 for def 7; Middle English; Old English fīf; cognate with Dutch vijf, German fünf, Old Norse fimm, Gothic fimf, Latin quīnque, Greek pénte, Sanskrit pancha

Examples for five

“It was Stephen Hawking and five other Nobel laureates,” Krauss recalled.

Besides, the five thousand dollars were gone and not likely to be recovered.

The Big five banks dubbed too big to fail, are 35 percent bigger than they were when the meltdown was triggered.

After four or five months of casual interaction, they realized they both had lost a young parent to cancer.

Not until five o'clock had he by turns urged and fought himself to the ferry.

The judges who handle arraignments at criminal court in all five boroughs have a small fraction of their usual caseloads.

“The play contains one five minute scene about James Hewitt,” Conway says.

He's stolen five or six hundred dollars in gold from old Paul Nichols.

I will send back and get the flour, as it is only five miles off.

five men were floating about in a boat in the Southern ocean.

Word Value for five
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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