fifth: meaning and words from its letters
5 letters · 14 letter points · starts with F · ends with H
Meaning of fifth
adj
- not-comparable
The ordinal form of the number five.
Listed forms: fift, fiveth.
Source: Wiktionary — fifth.
noun
The person or thing in the fifth position.
- ellipsis
The person or thing in the fifth position. The fifth gear of a transmission.
One of five equal parts of a whole: one-fifth.
- US
A quantity of liquor equal to one-fifth of an American gallon, or, more commonly, 750 milliliters (that is, three quarters of a liter).
Listed forms: fifths, fift, fiveth.
Source: Wiktionary — fifth.
verb
To sing in the fifth voice in a polyphonic melody.
- informal, transitive
To support something fifth, after four others have already done so.
- nonstandard, transitive
To divide by five.
Listed forms: fifths, fifthing, fifthed, fift, fiveth.
Source: Wiktionary — fifth.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for fifth.
adjective
coming next after the fourth and just before the sixth in position
- 5th
noun
one part in five equal parts
- one-fifth
- fifth part
- twenty percent
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
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Letter-value score of fifth
F(4) + I(1) + F(4) + T(1) + H(4) = 14 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of fifth
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
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Shorter words from fifth
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