Definitions for eighth

eighth eighth

Spelling: [eytth, eyth]
IPA: /eɪtθ, eɪθ/

Eighth is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 51 anagrams from letters in eighth (eghhit).

Definitions for eighth

noun

  1. an eighth part, especially of one (⅛).
  2. the eighth member of a series.
  3. Music. octave.

adverb

  1. in the eighth place; eighthly.

adjective

  1. next after the seventh.
  2. being one of eight equal parts.

Origin of eighth

before 1000; Middle English eightethe, Old English eahtotha; cognate with Old High German ahtoda, Old Norse āttandi, Gothic ahtud-. See eight, -th

Examples for eighth

Not a stick was there nearer than an eighth of a mile across the bay.

Of the fifth, the sixth and the eighth daughters nothing further is known.

Some said it was in the eighth Ward; others located it in the Seventeenth.

His ultimate career goal is unchanged as he nears the end of the eighth grade and prepares to begin high school.

Meryl Streep makes an eighth of what Justin Bieber does a year.

She was a beanpole growing up, before gaining 30 pounds after getting her period in eighth grade.

On the eighth day of the assizes there were but fifty of us left in the wool warehouse.

On his eighth try, more than three decades after he went in, the parole board finally voted to release Sam.

On the third circuit they make up just 17 percent of justices, and on the eighth circuit 18 percent.

The three regiments parading were the eighth, Ninth and Twenty-fourth.

Word Value for eighth
Scrable

13

Words with friends

12

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