FIFTY
What does "FIFTY" mean?
The number equal to five times ten; 50.
Meanings
- The cardinal number 50. Half of one hundred is fifty.
- Amounting to fifty in number. There were fifty chairs set out for the lecture.
- A banknote or sum worth fifty units of currency. She paid with a crisp fifty and waved off the change. informal
Did you know?
- The United States has only had fifty states since 1959 - Alaska joined in January and Hawaii in August of that single year, locking in the number on the flag.
Word origin
From Old English 'fiftig', combining 'fif' (five) with '-tig' (a group of ten), of Germanic origin.
Remember it
FIFTY = FIVE tens; the '-ty' ending means 'times ten', so sixty, seventy, eighty all share the trick.
A little poem
Five hands of ten, a round half-hundred mark-
old enough to know, young enough to spark.
couplet
Wordplay
- I'm at a fifty-fifty crossroads: half of me wants to decide, the other half is still counting.
What it teaches
Fifty is just halfway to a hundred and a whole life past zero; it depends which end you face.
Quick facts
What does FIFTY mean?
The number equal to five times ten; 50.
Is FIFTY a valid word?
Yes — FIFTY is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is FIFTY?
FIFTY has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does FIFTY come from?
From Old English 'fiftig', combining 'fif' (five) with '-tig' (a group of ten), of Germanic origin.
What can FIFTY teach us?
Fifty is just halfway to a hundred and a whole life past zero; it depends which end you face.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.