Definitions for fifteen

fifteen fif·teen

Spelling: [fif-teen]
IPA: /ˈfɪfˈtin/

Fifteen is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 62 anagrams from letters in fifteen (eeffint).

Definitions for fifteen

noun

  1. a cardinal number, ten plus five.
  2. a symbol for this number, as 15 or XV.
  3. a set of this many persons or things.

adjective

  1. amounting to 15 in number.

Origin of fifteen

before 900; Middle English, Old English fiftene. See five, -teen

Examples for fifteen

Then I come on a slab of gray stone upstanding about fifteen feet.

There are only Evelyn and I, and I am fifteen years older than she.

fifteen years later, the same communities had returned for the annual celebration, as most had year after year.

It took me fifteen minutes to fill a thick black Hefty bag with papers and computer parts.

We did not get on it till we had travelled along the line about fifteen miles.

fifteen people were killed, more than 200 were injured, and more than 300 families lost their homes.

fifteen years after its last execution, Pennsylvania is finding it difficult to fire up its death machine again.

Bob Cratchit, the clerk who is the father of Tiny Tim and who meekly serves Scrooge, is paid fifteen shillings a week.

Seventy-four of the professors voted for Mr. Gladstone and fifteen for Mr. Perceval.

For fifteen years he poured his heart without stint into his work!

Word Value for fifteen
Scrable

13

Words with friends

14

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