Meanings
nounquintuplet (plural quintuplets)
plural quintuplets
Synonyms & antonyms
five things
Similar
nounthe cardinal number that is the sum of four and one
nounone of five children born at the same time from the same pregnancy
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Middle Frenchquintuple
- Englishquintuplet
From quintuple + -et, from Middle French quintuple.
More words from Middle French
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Catalan quintigemin, quintigèmina
- quintigeminone of a group of five babies born from the same mother during the same birth
- quintigèminaone of a group of five babies born from the same mother during the same birth
Danish femling
- femlingone of a group of five babies born from the same mother during the same birth
Dutch vijfling
- vijflingone of a group of five babies born from the same mother during the same birth
Finnish viitonen
- viitonenone of a group of five babies born from the same mother during the same birth
French quintolet, quintuplé
- quintolet(music) group of five notes played in place of four
- quintupléone of a group of five babies born from the same mother during the same birth
German Fünfling
- Fünflingone of a group of five babies born from the same mother during the same birth
Japanese 五つ子
- 五つ子 (itsutsugo)one of a group of five babies born from the same mother during the same birth
Māori māhanga rima
- māhanga rimaone of a group of five babies born from the same mother during the same birth
Norwegian Bokmål femling
- femlingone of a group of five babies born from the same mother during the same birth
Portuguese quíntuplo, quíntupla
- quíntuploone of a group of five babies born from the same mother during the same birth
- quíntuplaone of a group of five babies born from the same mother during the same birth
Romanian cvintolet
- cvintolet(music) group of five notes played in place of four
Spanish quintillizo
- quintillizoone of a group of five babies born from the same mother during the same birth
Swedish femling
- femlingone of a group of five babies born from the same mother during the same birth
Turkish beşiz
- beşizone of a group of five babies born from the same mother during the same birth
Welsh pumled
- pumledone of a group of five babies born from the same mother during the same birth
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with quintuplet
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APA
quintuplet. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quintuplet
MLA
“quintuplet.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quintuplet. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “quintuplet,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quintuplet.
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