how to pronounce seventy

/ˈsɛvəntiː/

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seventy is pronounced in three syllables

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An example use of seventy in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… sounds great and at seventy dollars it's …”

meanings of seventy

numeral:

The cardinal number occurring after sixty-nine and before seventy-one, represented in Roman numerals as LXX and in Arabic numerals as 70.

name:

The translators of the Septuagint.

seventy frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word seventy occurs in english on average 3.3 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.