thirteen

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
11
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˌθɜːˈtiːn/
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/ˌθɜːˈtiːn/ · /ˌθɝtˈtin/ · /ˌθɝtin-/ · /ˈθɜː.tiːn/ · /ˈθɝt.tin/ · /ˈθɝ.tin/

Definition of thirteen

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

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  1. The cardinal number occurring after twelve and before fourteen: ten and three.
    “There are thirteen cards of each of the four suits in a deck of playing cards.”
    “His brother's age is thirteen.”
    “During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant[…]”
    “In the summer of 2014, at least thirteen BTGs and elements of five SPETSNAZ units were poised on the Ukrainian border.³⁶”

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Etymology

From Middle English thirttene, variant (through metathesis) of thrittene, from Old English þrēotīene, from Proto-Germanic *þritehun, compound of *þrīz (“three”) + *tehun (“teen”). Cognate with West Frisian trettjin, Dutch dertien, German dreizehn, Danish tretten. Equivalent to three + -teen.

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