nineties
noun, adjective
nineties is spelled N-I-N-E-T-I-E-S: 8 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 1.4 times per million words in written English, the 24,170th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, nineties means “The decade of one's life from age 90 through age 99” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of nineties is the nineties.
How many letters and syllables are in nineties?
| Letters | 8: N-I-N-E-T-I-E-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.4 times per million words; the 24,170th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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 nineties?
Nineties appears 1.4 times per million words in written English, the 24,170th 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 nineties?
Nineties has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What rhymes with nineties?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as nineties.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: einstein.
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 nineties
- 90s
- '90s
- the nineties plural, singular
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does nineties mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
plural of ninety
- 2
The decade of one's life from age 90 through age 99.
- 3
The range between 90 and 99.
My ideal bracket of temperature ranges from the sixties up to the nineties.
- 4
The decade of the 1890s, 1990s, etc.
adjective
- 1
From or evoking the 91st through 100th years of a century (chiefly the 1990s).
I found myself attracted to his mullet even though it struck me as needlessly nineties.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Nineties in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the decade of the 1990s:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | années quatre-vingt-dix, années 90 |
| German | neunziger Jahre, Neunziger, Neunzigerjahre, 90er Jahre |
| Portuguese | anos noventa, década de noventa |
| Spanish | años noventa, los noventa |
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.