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fourteenth

four·teenth/ˌfɔɹˈtiːnθ/adjective, noun

fourteenth is spelled F-O-U-R-T-E-E-N-T-H: 10 letters and 2 syllables (four·teenth). It appears 2.2 times per million words in written English, the 18,297th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, fourteenth means “The ordinal form of the number fourteen” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in fourteenth?

Letters10: F-O-U-R-T-E-E-N-T-H
Syllables2: four·teenth
In writing2.2 times per million words; the 18,297th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is fourteenth?

Fourteenth appears 2.2 times per million words in written English, the 18,297th 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 fourteenth?

  • UK /ˌfɔːˈtiːnθ/
  • US /ˌfɔɹˈtiːnθ/

Fourteenth has 2 syllables, split four·teenth in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-fourteenth.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with fourteenth?

One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as fourteenth from its last stressed vowel (/inθ/):

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 fourteenth

  • fourteenths plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does fourteenth mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    The ordinal form of the number fourteen.

noun

  1. 1

    The person or thing in the fourteenth position.

  2. 2

    One of fourteen equal parts of a whole.

  3. 3

    The interval comprising an octave and a seventh.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Fourteenth in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchquatorzième, quatorze (ordinal form of the number fourteen – see also…)
Germanvierzehnte (ordinal form of the number fourteen – see also…)
Portuguesedécimo quarto (ordinal form of the number fourteen – see also…)
Spanishdecimocuarto (ordinal form of the number fourteen – see also…), decimocuarta (something in the fourteenth position), catorceavo (one of fourteen equal parts of a whole)

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 fourteenth come from?

Inherited from Middle English fourtenthe, fourtethe, from Old English fēowertēoþa, equivalent to fourteen + -th.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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