fortyish
/ˈfɔː(ɹ).ti.ɪʃ/adjective, number
fortyish is an adjective meaning “Close to the number forty” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-R-T-Y-I-S-H, and it appears about once in every 83 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does fortyish mean?
adjective
- 1
Close to the number forty
- 2
About forty years old.
number
- 1
Any number close to forty.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fortyish?
- /ˈfɔː(ɹ).ti.ɪʃ/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-fortyish.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
How common is fortyish?
Fortyish appears about once in every 83 million words in written English, the 290,185th 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).
Where does fortyish come from?
From forty + -ish.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).