nine

Plural: nines

Noun

The cardinal number equivalent to the sum of eight and one.
the cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one
a team of professional baseball players who play and travel together
one of four playing cards in a deck with nine pips on the face
The digit or figure 9.
A playing card with nine pips.
A nine-millimeter semi-automatic pistol.
A statistical unit of proportion (of reliability, purity, etc.).
A baseball club, team, or lineup (composed of nine players).

Adjective Satellite

denoting a quantity consisting of one more than eight and one less than ten

Num

A numerical value equal to 9; the number following eight and preceding ten.
Describing a group or set with nine elements.

Examples

A cat has nine lives.
His bingo scored a phenomenal ninety-nine points, using all seven letters on his rack.
They guaranteed that our Web site would have 99.99% uptime, or four nines.

Origin / Etymology

PIE word
*h₁néwn̥
From Middle English nyne, nine, from Old English nigon (“nine”), from Proto-West Germanic *neun, from Proto-Germanic *newun (“nine”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥ (“nine”). Cognate with Scots neen, nine (“nine”), Saterland Frisian njúgen (“nine”), West Frisian njoggen (“nine”), Dutch negen (“nine”), German Low German negen (“nine”), German neun (“nine”), Danish ni (“nine”), Swedish nio (“nine”), Icelandic níu (“nine”), Gothic 𐌽𐌹𐌿𐌽 (niun, “nine”), Latin novem (“nine”), Ancient Greek ἐννέα (ennéa, “nine”), Sanskrit नवन् (navan, “nine”).

Synonyms

9, ball club, baseball club, club, ennead, ix, IX, Nina from Carolina, nine-spot, niner

Scrabble Score: 4

nine: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
nine: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
nine: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 6

nine: valid Words With Friends Word