About The Word “Thousands”

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

How to spell “thousands”

Thousands is spelled t-h-o-u-s-a-n-d-s and has 9 letters.


How many vowels and consonants in “thousands”

The word “thousands” has 6 consonants and 3 vowels.


How many syllables in “thousands”?

There are 2 syllables in the word “thousands”.


What type of word is “thousands”?

The word "thousands" can be a N/A.

Meaning of the word “thousands”

The word 'thousands' refers to a numerical value or quantity that ranges from 1,000 to 9,999, indicating a large number of items or units. It can also be used to emphasize the vastness or multitude of something, such as a crowd or collection.

Origin of the word “thousands”

The word 'thousands' has its origins in Old English, derived from the word 'þūsend', which in turn has roots in Proto-Germanic '*þūsundi'. The Proto-Germanic word is believed to be borrowed from the Proto-Indo-European '*túh₂sonti', which also influenced Latin 'mīlle' and Ancient Greek 'χίλιοι' (khílioi).
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Synonyms for “thousands”

Other words for “thousands” include numerous, myriad, multitudinous, countless, innumerable, untold, umpteen.

Common misspellings of “thousands”

Thuusands, fousands, theusands

Similar words to “thousands”

Hounds, husbands, thousand, thousandth

Scrambled words derived from “thousands”

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Crossword clues for “thousands”

Numerous grand units perplexed (9).

Fun facts about the word “thousands”

The word “thousands” has a Scrabble score of 13 and reads sdnasuoht in reverse.


Phonetic spelling of “thousands”

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The phonetic alphabet, specifically the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), is a system of notation for the sounds of languages created by linguists. Unlike conventional written alphabets, which vary across languages and can have inconsistent mappings of symbols to sounds, the IPA is designed to provide a consistent and universally understood means of transcribing the sounds of any spoken language.

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“thousands” spelled in Morse code

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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 “thousands”

Lowercase word: 116 104 111 117 115 97 110 100 115

Uppercase word: 84 72 79 85 83 65 78 68 83

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 “thousands”

Lowercase word: 1110100 1101000 1101111 1110101 1110011 1100001 1101110 1100100 1110011

Uppercase word: 1010100 1001000 1001111 1010101 1010011 1000001 1001110 1000100 1010011

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 “thousands”

Lowercase hexadecimal word: 0x74 0x68 0x6F 0x75 0x73 0x61 0x6E 0x64 0x73

Uppercase hexadecimal word: 0x54 0x48 0x4F 0x55 0x53 0x41 0x4E 0x44 0x53

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 “thousands”

Lowercase: 116 104 111 117 115 97 110 100 115

Upprcase: 84 72 79 85 83 65 78 68 83

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 “thousands”

Lowercase: 164 150 157 165 163 141 156 144 163

Upprcase: 124 110 117 125 123 101 116 104 123

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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