Definition of five

"five" in the noun sense

1. five, 5, V, cinque, quint, quintet, fivesome, quintuplet, pentad, fin, Phoebe, Little Phoebe

the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one

2. basketball team, five

a team that plays basketball

3. five-spot, five

a playing card or a domino or a die whose upward face shows five pips

"five" in the adjective sense

1. five, 5, v

being one more than four

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Quotations for five

He that would thrive
Must rise by five. [ Proverb ]

He that needs five thousand pound to live,
Is full as poor as he that needs but five. [ George Herbert ]

To make three guineas do the work of five. [ Burns ]

Jewels, five words long,
That, on the stretched forefinger of all Time,
Sparkle forever. [ Tennyson ]

To seek in a sheep five feet when there are but four. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He that has but four, and spends five, has no need of a purse. [ Proverb ]

Learn to hold thy tongue. Five words cost Zacharias forty weeks silence. [ Fuller ]

Great folks have five hundred friends because they have no occasion for them. [ Goldsmith ]

At fifteen, to dance is a pleasure; at twenty five, a pretext; at forty, a fatigue. [ A. Ricard ]

I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won twenty-five games. What I don't understand is how he lost five. [ Yogi Berra ]

The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinions of its young men under five-and-twenty. [ Goethe ]

I have seen young ladies of twenty-five affecting a childish ingenuousness which has made me doubt their virtue.

Cure oneself as far as possible of a trick common to almost every one, of using four or five adjectives before a noun. [ Ada Ellen Bayly, a.k.a. Edna Lyall, English novelist and early feminist, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]

Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humour to one from their reason. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Never trust a woman who wears mauve or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons. It means they have a history. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

There never appear more than five or six men of genius in an age, but if they were united the world could not stand before them. [ Swift ]

When one is five-and-twenty, one has not chalkstones at one's finger-ends that the touch of a handsome girl should be entirely indifferent. [ George Eliot ]

I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five and twenty. [ Dryden ]

Little-minded people's thoughts move in such small circles that five minutes' conversation gives you an arc long enough to determine their whole curve. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

Never build after you are five and forty; have five years' income in hand before you lay a brick; and always calculate the expense at double the estimate. [ Kett ]

Much depends upon when and where you read a book. In the five or six impatient minutes before the dinner is quite ready, who would think of taking up the Faerie Queen for a stopgap, or a volume of Bishop Andrews's Sermons? [ Lamb ]

Many men want wealth, - not a competence alone, but a five-story competence. Everything subserves this; and religion they would like as a sort of lightning-rod to their houses, to ward off by and by the bolts of Divine wrath. [ Beecher ]

Heaven may have happiness as utterly unknown to us as the gift of perfect vision would be to a man born blind. If we consider the inlets of pleasure from five senses only, we may be sure that the same Being who created us could have given us five hundred, if He had pleased. [ Colton ]

Talent is something, but tact is everything. It is not a seventh sense, but is the life of all the five. It is the open eye, the quick ear, the judging taste, the keen smell, and the lively touch; it is the interpreter of all riddles, the surmounter of all difficulties, the remover of all obstacles. [ W. P. Scargill ]

Never teach false modesty. How exquisitely absurd to teach a girl that beauty is of no value, dress of no use! Beauty is of value; her whole prospects and happiness in life may often depend upon a new gown or a becoming bonnet; if she has five grains of commonsense she will find this out. The great thing is to teach her their proper value. [ Sydney Smith ]

five in Scrabble®

The word five is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters five:

FIVE
(42)
 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word five

FIVE
(42)
FIVE
(33)
FIVE
(30)
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FIVE
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(14)
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FIVE
(11)
FIVE
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FIVE
(10)

The 55 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In five

FIVE
(42)
FIVE
(33)
FIVE
(30)
FIVE
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FIVE
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FIVE
(30)
FIVE
(28)
FIVE
(22)
FIVE
(20)
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FIVE
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FIVE
(20)
VIE
(18)
VIE
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VIE
(18)
FIVE
(18)
FIVE
(18)
FIVE
(18)
EF
(15)
IF
(15)
EF
(15)
IF
(15)
VIE
(14)
FIVE
(14)
FIVE
(14)
IF
(13)
EF
(13)
VIE
(12)
VIE
(12)
FIVE
(12)
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(12)
VIE
(12)
VIE
(11)
FIVE
(11)
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IF
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VIE
(10)
IF
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EF
(10)
FIVE
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IF
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VIE
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VIE
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IF
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VIE
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(6)
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(5)

five in Words With Friends™

The word five is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 11

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters five:

FIVE
(57)
 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word five

FIVE
(57)
FIVE
(39)
FIVE
(33)
FIVE
(33)
FIVE
(33)
FIVE
(33)
FIVE
(30)
FIVE
(29)
FIVE
(24)
FIVE
(22)
FIVE
(22)
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(22)
FIVE
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FIVE
(21)
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FIVE
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FIVE
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FIVE
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FIVE
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FIVE
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FIVE
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The 59 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In five

FIVE
(57)
FIVE
(39)
FIVE
(33)
FIVE
(33)
FIVE
(33)
FIVE
(33)
FIVE
(30)
FIVE
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FIVE
(24)
FIVE
(22)
FIVE
(22)
FIVE
(22)
FIVE
(22)
VIE
(21)
VIE
(21)
VIE
(21)
FIVE
(21)
FIVE
(20)
FIVE
(19)
VIE
(19)
VIE
(17)
FIVE
(16)
FIVE
(16)
FIVE
(15)
EF
(15)
FIVE
(15)
EF
(15)
IF
(15)
IF
(15)
VIE
(14)
VIE
(14)
VIE
(14)
VIE
(13)
EF
(13)
IF
(13)
FIVE
(13)
FIVE
(13)
FIVE
(13)
VIE
(12)
FIVE
(12)
FIVE
(12)
FIVE
(11)
EF
(10)
IF
(10)
IF
(10)
EF
(10)
VIE
(9)
EF
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IF
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Words within the letters of five

2 letter words in five (2 words)

3 letter words in five (1 word)

4 letter words in five (1 word)

five + 1 blank (2 words)

five + 2 blanks (3 words)

Words containing the sequence five

Words that start with five (5 words)

Words with five in them (2 words)

Words that end with five (6 words)

Word Growth involving five

Shorter words in five

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Longer words containing five

fivefold

fiver fivers

fives twentyfives

fortyfive

seventyfive

sixtyfive

thirtyfive

twentyfive twentyfives