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three fifths

three fifths is the rare spelling of three-fifths.

Meaning of three-fifths

Numeral

three-fifths

  1. Three of five equal parts (3/5, ⅗, 0.6).
    • three-fifths of the population

Questions about three fifths

What is three fifths the rare spelling of?
Three fifths is the rare spelling of three-fifths.

Words near three fifths in the dictionary

  1. three dog night
  2. three dog nights
  3. three eighths
  4. Three Emperors' Corner
  5. three episode rule
  6. three fifths
  7. three figures
  8. three fires
  9. three fourths
  10. three fries short of a Happy Meal
  11. three Fs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: three fifths (page history and authors); three-fifths (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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