Word Type

Noun

Verb

Adjective

The word "number" can be used as noun, verb and adjective.

Word Relationships

Opposites (Antonyms)

character

Typical Location

equation math book math problem math textbook mathematics office phone book phonebook roulette wheel social security number someones address statistic store telephone book

Capable Of

equal number

Derived Terms

0800 number 11 o'clock number 800 number 900 number A number A number 1 Abbe number Achilles number Archimedes number Armstrong number Atwood number Avogadro's number Bacon number Bagnold number Bates number Bejan number Bell number Bernoulli number Betti number Biot number Carmichael number Carol number Catalan number Cullen number Cullum number Cutter number Delannoy number Dunbar's number E number English terms starting with Erdos number Erdős number Euler's number Fermat number Fibonacci number Fresnel number Frobenius number Froude number GLIDE number God's number Goldbach number Graham's number Greek number Grundy number Gödel number Hagberg number Hardy-Ramanujan number Harshad number Hartogs number Heegner number Heesch number Hodges number Horowitz number IP number Kaprekar number Keith number Kirschner number Knudsen number Köchel number L-number Lah number Laws number Leonardo number Leyland number Liouville number Listing number Lucas number Ludolph's number Ludolphian number Lychrel number Mach number Markov number Messier number Motzkin number Narayana number Newton number Niven number PIN number PV number Pell number Pisot number Pisot-Vijayaraghavan number Polenske number Prandtl number Proth number R number RSA number Ramanujan-Hardy number Ramsey number Rayo's number Reichert-Meissl number Reichert-Meissl-Wollny number Reynolds number Richardson number Rouse number Sagan's number Schröder number Sierpinski number Skewes' number Stephanus number Stirling number Stirling number of the second kind Stirling partition number Strouhal number Weber number Wolf number Wratten number Zeisel number Zürich number a number of abbreviated number abstract analytic number theory abstract number abundant number accession number account number achromatic number acid number additive number theory age is just a number aggregation number aircraft registration number aleph number algebraic number algebraic number field algebraic number theory algorithmic number theory all-figure number amicable number analytic number theory angel number any number of apocalyptic number atomic mass number atomic number autobiographical number automorphic number autonumber azimuthal quantum number back number baryon number basic reproduction number basic reproductive number bib number bicomplex number binary number binding number book number book-number box number broken number by the numbers by-the-numbers cake number call number call someone's number carbon number cetane number chromatic number chromosome number clique number cloud number nine collective number color by number color by numbers composite number computational number theory concrete number condition number contact number control number coordination number cop number copy number copy number polymorphism copy number variation copy-number variant counting number covering number critical Reynolds number crooked number crossing number crossnumber crunch numbers curb number cushy number cyclic number cyclomatic number de Moivre number decimal number defective number deficient number denumber devil's number dial number diamond number disc number distributive number do a number on do numbers domination number double number double-number dual number edge covering number edge number electron number element number epsilon number excessive number extended real number system f-number falling number false number 9 fax number figurate number file off the serial numbers fixed-point number flight number floating-point number fractional number frame number friendly number furry number genuine number eleven geometry of numbers get someone's number golden number hailstone number happy number harmonic number have one's number on it have someone's number hemiperfect number hexagonal number highly composite number homogeneous number hyperbolic number hypercomplex number hypernumber hyperperfect number hyperreal number ideal number illegal number independence number interesting number paradox inverse number iodine number item number kissing number law of large numbers lepton number line number linking number look for number one look out for number one lose the number of one's mess lot number magic number magnetic quantum number make one's number make up the numbers mass number matching number matching numbers meandric number mesh number misnumber mixed number mobile number model number motor octane number multinumber multiplicative number narcissistic number natural numbers natural numbers object neutralization number neutron number nimber non-hypotenuse number nonhypotenuse number nonstandard number nothing-up-my-sleeve number nucleon number nude number number 10 number 2 number 2 pencil number close number coding number cruncher number crunching number density number eight number eleven number field number five number four number game number girl number line number needed to harm number nine number one number one with a bullet number pad number plate number ray number sentence number seven number sign number six number system number ten number theoretician number theorist number theory number three number two number-cruncher number-crunching number-theoretic number-theoretic function number-theoretical number-theoretically numberable numberer numberful numberhood numberish numberless numberlike numberness numberous numbers game numbers juggling numbers racket numbers station numbers-matching numbersome numbertaker numberwang numberwork numbery numeral numeric numerical oblong number occupation number octane number one's number is up orbital quantum number outnumber overnumber oxidation number p-adic number paint by numbers paint-by-numbers painting by numbers pancake number pentatope number perfect number perplex number personal identification number pitting resistance equivalent number plate number coil play number two powerful number practical number preferred number premium-rate telephone number prenumber prime number theorem principal quantum number private enterprise number proton number pseudo-random number generator pseudoperfect number pseudorandom number generator public enemy number one purely imaginary number pyramidal number quantum number quaternary number random number random number generator random number god rational numbers real number line real number system real numbers rectangular number registration number regnal number renumber repfigit number research octane number ringer equivalence number roll number rookie numbers rough number routing number sad number safety in numbers saponification number schizophrenic number semiperfect number sex number sieve number silent number single-number sociable number social insurance number social security number social-security number someone's number is up sphenic number spin quantum number split-complex number square number street number student number subnumber sunspot number superabundant number superior highly composite number supernumber superparticular number surreal number tail number tailnumber take a number taxicab number tetrahedral number there is safety in numbers there is strength in numbers times without number tone number total base number transcendental number transcendental number theory transfinite number trial number triangular number tricomplex number turn a number of shades of red turning number unhappy number unique identification number unknown number untouchable number vampire number vanity number vehicle identification number version number vertex separation number wave number wavenumber weed number weird number what is your phone number what number what's your phone number whole number winding number without number wrong number

Distinct From

alpha alphabet

Etymologically Related To

er numb

Inflected/Variant Forms

numb

Context

followed by numeral used attributively grammar mathematics slang us

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

amount ascertain assort be circumscribe class classify company confine to definite quantity denominate designate determine find find out grammatical category identify item limit merchandise name performance periodical positive identification product public presentation separate sign signal signaling signalling size sort sort out symbol syntactic category ware

Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)

Grabovoi number Roud number abundant number adverbial number algebraic integer algebraic number amicable number cardinal number complex number composite number deficient number even number fraction house number imaginary number integer integral number irrational number natural number negative number odd number opposite number ordinal number perfect number phone number positive number prime number quadratic integer quaternion rational number real number round number serial number telephone number transcendental number whole number

Type Of (IsA)

amount company definite quantity digit digit of value grammatical category information item merchandise numeric value part of speech positive identification quantity scalar value size subset of numbers

Manner Of

designate limit name

Part Of

scale

Related Terms

Appendix:Numbers Appendix:Roman numerals Wiktionary’s Appendix of numbers baker’s dozen base 24 base 32 bi binary centenarian centenary chilia chiliad deca decad decade decadic decagon decahedron decalogy decet decimal denary di digon dilogy dodeca dodecad dodecagon dodecahedron double dozen duad dual duet duo duodeca duodecade duodecet duodecimal duodenary dyad dyadic eightfold eightsome ennead enneadeca ennealogy five times fivefold fivesome four times fourfold foursome grammatical numbers half hebdomad hendeca hendecad hepta heptad heptadeca heptadic heptagon heptahedron heptalogy heptamerous hexa hexad hexadeca hexadic hexagon hexahedron hexalogy hexamerous hexavigesimal icosa icosahedron icosidodecahedron monad monadic mono monogon monomerous multiple niladic ninefold nona nonad nonadic nonagenarian nonagon nonary nonet nonuplet novenary octa octad octadeca octadic octagon octahedron octal octamerous octet octogenarian octogesimal octology octonary octuple octuplet ogdoad oligo once onefold pair penta pentad pentadeca pentadecimal pentadic pentagon pentahedron pentalogy pentamerous poly polyadic polygon polyhedron polylogy primary quadragenarian quadral quadri quadruple quadruplet quartary quartet quaternary quin quinary quindecagon quinquagenarian quinque quintet quintuple quintuplet score secondary senary septenary septet septuagenarian septuple septuplet sevenfold sevensome sexa sexagenarian sexagesimal sextet sextuple sextuplet single singular sixfold sixsome solo tenfold ternary tertiary tetra tetrad tetradeca tetradecimal tetradic tetragon tetrahedron tetralogy tetramerous threefold threesome thrice treble tri triad triadic trial tricenarian trideca trigon trilogy trimerous trio triple triplet twice twin twofold twosome unary undeca uni vicenarian vigenary vigesimal whole ℂ ℕ ℙ ℚ ℝ ℤ

Related Terms

abstract accounts adding adding unit addition addition sign aid all integers amount arabic arabic numeral arithmetic assign binary bummer calculators cardinal cardinal integer cardinal ordinal character clothing codes complex number concept count count it count quantity count with countable counted counter counting counting aid counting by counting device counting digit counting digits counting icon counting notation counting numeral counting symbol counting thing counting tool counting unit counting units counting with dealer describe device dictation digit digit amount digit four digit integer digit numeral digits dual eight eight nine entity equations even even odd example example forty figure figure quantity figures finance first first guest five five six for counting forty four four five generic generic term guest how how many icon identity in counting in math infinite inflection integer integers issue joint keypad label letter like like nine like numeral look look time many marijuana math math concept math digit math equations math part math problems math quantity math term math thing math unit mathematical mathematical dictation mathematical unit mathematical unity mathematics measurement mumble natural number nine nine ten no non negative notation numeral numeral digit numerals numeric numeric digit numeric quantity numeric term numeric value numerical numerical digit numerical digits numerical identity numerical system odd odd even one one five one numerical one three one two ordinal part passwords performance periodical person phone phone something plural problems publication quantity quaternion rational number real number rhyme roman roman numeral sequence seven seven eight seven six seventeen sign single single thing singular six sixteen song stylish symbol system telephone number ten term they three three four time tool total two two three unit unit measurement units unity used used count used counting value values verse what what are writing written written character zero zero nine zero one zip zip codes

Synonym Network

act count digit issue numeral phone number scalar total

Used For

call on telephone identify order of identifying apartment identifying house index material indicating quantity list things in order math orginization represent order tracking quantity work things out

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.