hundred
hund·red/ˈhʌn.dɹəd/number, noun
hundred is spelled H-U-N-D-R-E-D: 7 letters and 2 syllables (hund·red). It appears 51 times per million words in written English, the 1,993rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a number, hundred means “A numerical value equal to 100 (10²), occurring after ninety-nine; ten times ten” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in hundred?
| Letters | 7: H-U-N-D-R-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: hund·red |
| In writing | 51 times per million words; the 1,993rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
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).
How common is hundred?
Hundred appears 51 times per million words in written English, the 1,993rd 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 hundred?
- UK /ˈhʌn.dɹəd/
- UK /-dɹɪd/
- British /ˈhʌnd͡ʒɹəd/
Hundred has 2 syllables, split hund·red in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-hundred.ogg, En-au-hundred.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of hundred
- hundreds plural
- 100
- hecto-
- hunnert
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does hundred mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
number
- 1
A numerical value equal to 100 (10²), occurring after ninety-nine; ten times ten.
hundreds of thousands of faces.
- 2
The pronunciation of “00” for the two digits denoting the minutes.
noun
- 1
A hundred-dollar bill, or any other note denominated 100 (e.g. a hundred euros).
- 2
An administrative subdivision of southern English counties formerly reckoned as comprising 100 hides (households or families) and notionally equal to 12,000 acres.
- 3
Similar divisions in other areas, particularly in other areas of Britain or the British Empire
- 4
USA subdivision once used in parts of the United States and still in use in Delaware solely for the purpose of real estate descriptions.
- 5
A score of one hundred runs or more scored by a batsman.
He made a hundred in the historic match.
- 6
Six score of casts of crabs (a score is twenty; a cast is two), totaling two hundred and forty crabs.
Coordinate term: cast
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Hundred in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | cent |
| German | hundert, einhundert, Hundert , Hunderter |
| Portuguese | cem, cento |
| Spanish | cien, ciento, centena, centenada, centenar, centenal |
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 hundred come from?
From Middle English hundred, from Old English hundred, from Proto-Germanic *hundaradą, from *hundą (from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm) + *radą (“count”), a neuter variant of *radō (“row, line, series”). Compare West Frisian hûndert, Dutch honderd, Low German hunnert, hunnerd, German Hundert, hundert, Danish hundred.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).