About The Word “Five”

Everything you wanted to know about the word “five”, including spelling, parts of speech, “five” meaning and origins, anagrams, rhyming words, encodings, crossword clues and much more!

How to spell “five”

Five is spelled f-i-v-e and has 4 letters.


How to pronounce “five”

IPA pronunciation: /faɪv/

Phonetic pronunciation: fahyv


How many vowels and consonants in “five”

The word “five” has 2 consonants and 2 vowels.


How many syllables in “five”?

There is 1 syllable in the word “five”.


What type of word is “five”?

The word "five" can be a noun.

Meaning of the word “five”

The word 'five' represents the cardinal number that comes after four and before six, denoting a quantity of five items or units. It is also used to signify the digit or figure 5, which is a symbol representing this number in the Hindu-Arabic numeral system.

Origin of the word “five”

The word 'five' has its origins in the Old English word 'fīf', which is derived from the Proto-Germanic numeral 'fimf', and shares its roots with the Latin 'quinque' and the Greek 'pente', all stemming from the Proto-Indo-European numeral '*penkwe'.

Example sentences with the word “five”

Noun:
  1. She gave me five apples from her garden.
Adjective:
  1. I have five more pages to read before I finish this book.
Adverb:
  1. The bakery is just five minutes away from my house.
Adjective:
  1. The five-year-old boy was eager to start school.

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Synonyms for “five”

Other words for “five” include quintet, pentad, quintuplet, fivesome, handful.

Word families for “five”

Fifteen, fifteenth, fifteenths, fifth, fifthly, fifths, fifties, fiftieth, fiftieths, fifty, fives

Common misspellings of “five”

Fave

Similar words to “five”

Fie, fiver, fives, ive

Scrambled words derived from “five”

Eifv, efiv, ifve, iefv, fvei, ievf, ifev, eivf, efvi, fevi, fiev, vfie, vief, ivfe, vefi, evif, evfi, veif, vife

Words that rhyme with “five”

Alive, dive, hive, jive, strive, thrive, derive, revive

Crossword clues for “five”

Quintet loses its head, still alive (4).

Fun facts about the word “five”

The word “five” has a Scrabble score of 10 and reads evif in reverse.


Phonetic spelling of “five”

Foxtrot India Victor Echo

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“five” spelled in Morse code

..-. .. ...- . (dot dot dash dot dot dot dot dot dot dash dot).

Morse code is a method used in telecommunication to encode text characters as sequences of two different signal durations, called dots and dashes, or dits and dahs. It was developed in the 1830s and 1840s by Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail for their new invention, the telegraph, which required a simple way to transmit text messages across long distances.

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ASCII spelling of “five”

Lowercase word: 102 105 118 101

Uppercase word: 70 73 86 69

ASCII, which stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard used by computers and electronic devices to understand and represent text.

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Binary spelling of “five”

Lowercase word: 1100110 1101001 1110110 1100101

Uppercase word: 1000110 1001001 1010110 1000101

Binary encoding is a system that computers and digital devices use to represent and process information. It's based on binary numbers, which are composed only of zeros and ones, known as bits.

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Hexadecimal value of “five”

Lowercase hexadecimal word: 0x66 0x69 0x76 0x65

Uppercase hexadecimal word: 0x46 0x49 0x56 0x45

Hexadecimal is a number system commonly used in computing as a human-friendly way of representing binary data. Unlike the decimal system, which is base 10 and uses digits from 0 to 9, the hexadecimal system is base 16, using digits from 0 to 9 and letters from A to F to represent the values 10 to 15.

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Decimal spelling of “five”

Lowercase: 102 105 118 101

Upprcase: 70 73 86 69

The decimal system, also known as base-10, is the numerical system most commonly used by people in everyday life. It's called "base-10" because it uses ten digits: 0 through 9. Each position in a decimal number represents a power of 10.

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Octal value of “five”

Lowercase: 146 151 166 145

Upprcase: 106 111 126 105

Octal is a base-8 number system used in digital computing. Unlike the decimal system which uses ten digits (0-9), and the binary system which uses two (0 and 1), the octal system uses eight digits: 0 through 7. Each position in an octal number represents a power of 8.

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