SEVEN
What does "SEVEN" mean?
The number equal to one more than six; the cardinal number 7.
Meanings
- The cardinal number that follows six and precedes eight. Three plus four makes seven.
- Amounting to seven in number. There are seven days in a week.
Did you know?
- Psychologist George Miller's famous 1956 paper argued that human short-term memory holds about seven items, give or take two - the 'magical number seven'.
- Seven is the likeliest roll of two dice: of the 36 possible combinations, six of them add up to seven, more than any other total.
Word origin
From Old English 'seofon', from Proto-Germanic 'sebun', from Proto-Indo-European 'septm', the same root as Latin 'septem' and Greek 'hepta'.
Remember it
SEVEN hides a familiar week: think of the SEVEN days, S-E-V-E-N, each letter a day to remember.
A little poem
Two dice in the cup-
of all the sums they could fall,
seven comes the most.
haiku
Wordplay
- I never trust seven at the casino - it shows up at the craps table more than any other number, and a guy who's always there is up to something.
What it teaches
Some numbers we trust by feel before we ever count: seven sits where memory and chance agree.
Quick facts
What does SEVEN mean?
The number equal to one more than six; the cardinal number 7.
Is SEVEN a valid word?
Yes — SEVEN is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is SEVEN?
SEVEN has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does SEVEN come from?
From Old English 'seofon', from Proto-Germanic 'sebun', from Proto-Indo-European 'septm', the same root as Latin 'septem' and Greek 'hepta'.
What can SEVEN teach us?
Some numbers we trust by feel before we ever count: seven sits where memory and chance agree.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.