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whichth

/wɪtʃθ/

whichth adjective: which ordinal number.

Adjective

whichth (not comparable)

  1. (nonstandard, rare) Which ordinal number.
    • Whichth president was Abraham Lincoln?
    • Whichth planet from the sun is the earth?

Examples of whichth in a sentence

  • […] knocking the stuffing out of each other for goodness knows the whichth time this year […]1975, Tribune, Ceylon News Service, page 4:
  • […] lay back in the lounger, checking the mantel clock for the he-didn't-know-whichth time.1992, Jan Seale, Airlift: Short Stories, Texas Christian University Press, →ISBN, page 4, →ISBN:

Origin of whichth

From which + -th (ordinal suffix). Equivalent constructions are standard in many of the world’s languages.

Questions about whichth

What does whichth mean?
Whichth means which ordinal number.
How do you use whichth in a sentence?
[…] knocking the stuffing out of each other for goodness knows the whichth time this year […]
What part of speech is whichth?
Whichth is an adjective.
How do you pronounce whichth?
Whichth is pronounced /wɪtʃθ/.

Words near whichth in the dictionary

  1. whichever
  2. whichever way one slices it
  3. Whichford
  4. whichsoe'er
  5. whichsoever
  6. whichth
  7. whichway
  8. whichways
  9. whicker
  10. whickered
  11. whickering

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