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fiveteen

fiveteen is the obsolete form of fifteen.

Meaning of fifteen

Numeral

fifteen (cardinal, ordinal fifteenth)

  1. (cardinal) The cardinal number occurring after fourteen (14) and before sixteen (16).
    • The fifteen men are, of course, the fifteen allies and the dead man's chest is the strategic principle on which their alliance is founded and which is now moribund.1960 December 17, C.I. Sulzberger, “Fifteen Men on the Dead Man's Chest”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2025
    Synonyms:
    XV, 15

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Questions about fiveteen

What is fiveteen the obsolete form of?
Fiveteen is the obsolete form of fifteen.

Words near fiveteen in the dictionary

  1. fivesome
  2. fivesomes
  3. fivespot
  4. fivespots
  5. fivestones
  6. fiveteen
  7. fiveth
  8. fivety
  9. fivever
  10. fiveway
  11. fiveways

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fiveteen (page history and authors); fifteen (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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