fifty
fif·ty/ˈfɪfti/number, noun
fifty is spelled F-I-F-T-Y, 2 syllables: fif·ty. The wrong spelling people search most is fivety: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 94 of all searches for the word. Fifty is a number meaning “The cardinal number occurring after forty-nine and before fifty-one”.
How many letters and syllables are in fifty?
| Letters | 5: F-I-F-T-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: fif·ty |
| In writing | 19 times per million words; the 4,365th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, fivety, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell fifty?
Fifty is spelled F-I-F-T-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 94 of the searches for fifty in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is fifty?
Fifty appears 19 times per million words in written English, the 4,365th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce fifty?
- US /ˈfɪfti/
Fifty has 2 syllables, split fif·ty in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-fifty.ogg, En-au-fifty.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with fifty?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as fifty from its last stressed vowel (/ɪfti/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: tiffy.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of fifty
- fitty
- fiddy
- fifties plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does fifty mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
number
- 1
The cardinal number occurring after forty-nine and before fifty-one.
noun
- 1
A banknote or coin with a denomination of 50.
Do you want small bills or are fifties OK?
- 2
A batsman's score of at least 50 runs and less than 100 runs.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Fifty in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | cinquante |
| German | fünfzig, fuffzig, fuchzig , Fünfziger |
| Portuguese | cinquenta, cinqüenta |
| Spanish | cincuenta |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does fifty come from?
From Middle English fifty, from Old English fīftiġ, from Proto-Germanic *fimf tigiwiz (“five tens”). By surface analysis, five + -ty.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).