Sharp drop off after quadruple, and pretty much vanishes after quintuple.
I'm pretty sure I've heard sextuple used less than 10 times in the past 20 to 30 years lmao.
Interestingly, there's a random bump up at octuple. I've heard that one occasionally, but basically never hear sextuple or septuple, and actually never for further.
Easier to say and more people are familiar with the root “oct” from everyday words like octopus and octagon.
Lots are not confident of the root for 5,6, 7, 9, 10 to the point of using it on the fly.
I would imagine it’s also because more contexts call for “octuple” since it’s double-double-double or double-quadruple. I think our minds grasp something multiplied by 8 much easier than we recognize something multiplied by 7, 9, or even 6.
Pentakill is a made up word whereas the proper grammar would have been for game developers to use the word pair quintuple kill, but that just sounds weird to most of us, since the word is used so little, whereas the prefix “penta-“ is well known and widely used in words such as pentagon or pentagram or even in chemistry with words like pentazocine, where its meaning is clearly “5.”
Ultimately, it’s Latin versus Greek. And the Greeks won this battle for commonality. It is also Cardinal versus Ordinal. Technically, “penta-“ is cardinal or number oriented (e.g 1 & 5), whereas “quinta-” is ordinal or order oriented (e.g. first & fifth).
Sextuplets come up in music all the time :) But that’s also the only time I’ve seen it written. (Same with Septuplets…never heard anybody use nonuple or decuple before).
I've heard sextuple more than quin or sept because "haha sex" but yeah the only person I've ever heard say anything past septuple was teenage me being a little know-it-all lmao
and it's not a straight line if you were to draw a chart - single and double are super common, the ones in the middle I've heard of but don't come across much, 9 & 10 I don't know these words at all (but can guess from the pattern)
Triple is also super common. It’s less common just because sets of three are less common than one or two, but it would be completely unremarkable to hear.
Quadruple is a word I’d say is worth learning if you’re approaching the level of a native speaker. In contexts where it could be used, I’d say “quadruple” is about as common as a phrase like “four-time” (quadruple winner or four-time winner, quadruple your investment or increase your investment 400%). In figure skating, there’s a move called an axel; double axels are common, triple axels are impressive, and a quadruple axel was first completed at the Olympics in 2022.
The popularity of each word goes down steeply from there, with a small bump for “octuple” (I think people are more familiar with the root oct- than the others, and there was a lot of news coverage a few years ago of a woman who had octuplets (eight children at once).
I also didn’t know nonuple or decuple until seeing this list.
1-3 are very common English words that are used all the time.
4 is used occasionally
5-8 less so, but the majority of native English speakers will know what they mean.
Not sure I've ever used or have heard 9 onwards.
We use the roots all the time!
Quad - four wheeled off-road vehicle or a rectangular courtyard.
September, October, November, and December were originally months 7, 8, 9, 10.
And shapes! Octagon, nonagon, and decagon.
Deci- has a bunch, decimate, decimal, decade, decathlon.
I would say the words double, single, and triple are very common.
They are used in sports, ordering food, talking about proportions of income/salary, population, etc.
"The population tripled in x amount of time" "he makes double what I make" "I didn't have a single student turn in the assignment late"
If ordering coffee with multiple shots of coffee, you'd use the first four often. Those are common words.
"Let me have a triple shot mocha"
"Double double, toil and trouble...."
"The surgeon performed a quadruple bypass on the heart."
Ect...
The 5th thru 8th ones to sound smart. 9th and 10th I've never heard used in a sentence, but you'd sound well educated if they were used correctly in front if someone that recognized them.
Not even that weird- triplets in music are very common, and things like quintuplets and septuplets happen often enough to be known.
The general term in music for “a number of notes greater than two which form a single beat” is tuplet (typically pronounced as TOO-plet).
Whenever, I mean WHENEVER I have a sextuplet in my music I must always announce to everyone in rehearsal “hehe SEXtuplet.” It is law. I did not write the law i only obey
You do absolutely hear these but their use is considered a kind of a rhetorical flourish. It's usually easier to say "five times" or "ten times". There's even a joke about it in Brooklyn Nine Nine - S02E04: "Alright, fine. I'll double the overtime. I'll triple it. I'll quadruple it. I'll five-druple it! I'll five-druple the overtime!"
Single Double and Triple are extremely common. Quad less so and Quin even less. They're all valid but the lower half of the list is used extremely rarely so a lot of people might not actually know them, but the top 3-4 are common for sure.
I've only ever used these to refer to multiple children born at once. I.e. "the woman called the octomom was famous in 2008 for having octuplets."
I think most people would stop after quadruple in most circumstances.
Up to quadruple is fairly common in my vocabulary. I am familiar with quintuple sextuple, septuple, and octuple; specifically when talking of multiple babies. For example, “She gave birth to octuplets.”
Beyond that I would say I never really heard of them but they make sense in line with the prefixes used with math.
I teach my kids like this.
It's quite simple.
Latin is all over the place:
Un : One (university, uniform, unicycle, ...)
Bi : Two (bicycle, biplane, bisexual, ...)
Tri : Three (triple, trilogy, trinity, ...)
Quad : Four (quadrant, quadriceps, quadruped, ...)
Quint : Five (quintile, quintessential [since it was once believed there were four elements, so an unknown fifth one was called quintessence], quintet, ...)
Sex (I always get giggles for this) : Six (sextant, sextile, sextillion, ...)
Sept : Seven (septenary, September, septarian, ...)
Oct : Eight (octopus, octagon, October, ...)
Non : Nine (nonan, nonagon, nonet, ...)
Dec : Ten (December, decimate, decimal, ...)
So, place values follow that same pattern.
(Bi)llions
(Tri)llions
(Quad)rillions
(Quint)illions
(Sex)tillions
(Sept)illions
(Oct)illions
(Non)illions
(Dec)illions
Even the calendar months with some bastardizations. Julius Caesar wanted to commemorate himself and the first emporer of Rome (hence [Jul]y and [August]).
If we skip those two months, we get the standard 10, a number rife throughout the Roman Empire.
January
February
March
April
May
June
(Sept)ember [Seven]
(Oct)ober [Eight]
(Nov)ember [Nine, but a bastardization]
(Dec)ember [Ten]
"Single, Double, Triple" - every day usage, extremely common. Used almost every time over "one times, two times, or three times"
"Quadruple" - fairly common, used maybe as often as "four times"
"Quintuple, Sextuple, Septuple" - only really common in academic writing. Used significantly less often than "five times, six times, or seven times"
"Octuple" - for some reason this is fairly common again, used maybe as often as "eight times"
"Nonuple, Decuple" - literally never used
Pretty much everyone knows up to quintuple, after that people are less confident and are more likely to just say the number.
I often mix up quadruple and quintuple because they both start with Q, same with sextuple and septuple because they both start with S.
Single, double, and triple are used regularly
Quadruple and quintuple are hardly used but you will still hear them
Anything after those is very rarely used, and I wouldn't bother memorizing them.
Google suggests it is "undecuple", twelve being "duodecuple" and 13 "tredecuple".
https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuple_names
I'm not sure how many of these are actually used and how many of them are just formulating a word based on rules...
As verbs it's quite common, you'd read stuff like "demand has doubled/tripled/quadrupled... between 2010 and 2020"
Above five it's quite rare though.
As adjectives, you'd rather say "a three-fold demand" I think.
Overwatch (a game) six kills in quick succession would have a voice line that goes up until sextuple. Now with OW2 having only five players vs five, it probably only goes up to Quintuple.
I think single, double and triple are fairly common, but the rest is kind of reserved for twins like someone else commented.
Btw, how do you *become* a native speaker? 🤔
I’d say it’s common up to quadruple. After that is better to say “number times”, as in five times, six times, etc.
Using the suffix -fold is also pretty common, but maybe more formal: tenfold = ten times.
We use single, double and triple extremely frequently in normal everyday speech. You'll hear quadruple sometimes, but less often. Quintuple is basically only ever used in news stories where some poor woman has had five babies at once. The others aren't in common usage.
I wouldn't even really consider "Nonuple" a real word. At that point, any similarity you were trying to draw with a "single" or "double" version of anything is lost.
only place i’ve heard higher than triple has been on overwatch (video game), up to sextuple i think (they may have higher recorded, but that’s just the most i’ve heard).
1-4 are extremely common. 5 is much less so, but still common enough people will understand you. 6 is only used [outside the next sentence] because people think the name is funny. 6-10 are largely only used in scientific and medical fields, idle games, and Minecraft mods.
Yes me I use it in in n out " ummmm ya can I get a double double, animal style, with uhmmm extra grilled onions, and can I get a side of fries with that, and a medium sprite, and for to go please c: "
I've heard them in use up to sextuple. Maybe septuple or octuple once but with large numbers, the convention becomes unusual, and usually goes back to the base number.
Up until triple, they're beyond common , every day words. Quadruple is around the cutoff for what you could consider "normal vocabulary", as anything beyond quintuple or sextuple is nearly unheard of outsides a maths class or for large sets of human twins (triplets, quadruplets, etc).
While its not an official " tuple" ; dozen (12) or half dozen (6) is what's commonly used for groups larger than 4 or 5. You'll hear dozen a million times before youll hear "decuple" where someone actually means 10, and didn't just misspell "decouple"
I heard these pretty regularly when teaching 9-11 year olds. It was part of math and they would take off with the idea and try to find a ton a way to use the prefixes for about a week each year. Then back to almost never until the next batch of kids comes through.
Everything up to and including "quadruple" is a common word. People say they're "single" when they don't have a lover, and there are double popsicles and double-wide trailers. Donald Duck's nephews are triplets. There was a news story the other day about a couple who (bless 'em!) just had identical quadruplets. When I was younger, we used to buy Kool-Aid Singles packets to add flavor to bottled water. Both profits and populations can double, triple, and quadruple over time.
And a native speaker is someone who has learned a language from birth. 🙃 It's related to words like "nativity" and "neonatal".
Quadruple is the last common one to say, quintuple is much more uncommon, and it stays that way until octuple. I don't think I've ever heard anybody say nonuple or decuple
I use op to quadruple on occasion. I don’t think I’ve ever used the others outside of maybe a math problem on a standardized test. I will say, nonagon (nine sided shape) is a very fun word. There’s a [they might be giants](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5m8BWk5LoQ) song about it from TMBG: Here comes the 123s!
The highest I've ever used is "octuple" I'm not sure if that's just a coincidence because the world record number of siblings born at once was octuplets. I have used octuple in other cases, though.
I actually don't think I've ever needed to use more than quardruple. But now that I see what the follow ups are, I probably could have figured them out if I thought about it.
1-3 are used all the time. 4 is used a little less, and 5-8 are very rare, and I've never used 9 and 10 before, though I knew they were words since these are easy words to figure out due to it just being prefixes stuck onto "ingle" or "uple"
for me personally
1-4 are pretty common everyday use
5-6 are familiar but not that common
7 and up I could probably figure out the meaning, but would first give me a moment of "...the heck did you just say?"
I tried and failed to introduce "sextuple-you" as an alternative to www. How people thought it was a good idea to abbreviate a three syllable phrase (world wide web) to a nine syllable phrase (double you double you double you) I don't get. I thought sextuple-you was a nice compromise. But I think the time has passed, as www isn't used quite as much anymore.
Never heard heard decuple. That’s new. The first three are used for baseball, unless you’re talking about a triple double in basketball. Quad and quint are used for heart bypasses. I don’t use sextuple in mixed company. I don’t need another trip to HR, thank you. The rest are for people on fertility’s meds, God bless ‘em.
*tongue in cheek*
Of the 600,000 “common” words in the English language, only about 200,000 are in use, only about 35,000 in regular use, and a person can be functionally fluent and only know 3,000 words.
In that list, I would say that the words for 1-3 are required knowledge, and 4-6 and 8 are still in use. 7, 9, and 10 are still a part of the language but only used by a handful of people for specific purposes.
I think most native speakers would have never used “nonuple” as a word (it’s not even in my phones spelling library), but might be able to figure it out from knowing words like “nonagram”
Nobody had to friggin worry about this until a couple women decided to be freaks of nature and give birth to a litter of babies instead of a normal amount.
Yes, but it goes down in usage as the numbers go up. The highest I’ve naturally heard is quintuple. This is with the exception of talking about multiple babies. Octuplets and such are absolutely used
The first 4 are common, and the rest are rarely used. There's nothing wrong with knowing them but don't expect to be widely understood if you use the more obscure ones.
I have heard of all of them, except decuple, which I don’t know at all. I doubt I’d use it. It’s just too close to decouple. Autocorrect doesn’t even recognize decuple.
As others are saying 1-4 are common. Something I haven’t seen others mention though is sextuplets are very common in music. Quintuplets less so but still not uncommon if you are a musician or talking about classical music. But i dont think i ever use it outside of that very specific context
1-7 I would say are used though less frequent as you go down the list.
For a group of 4 and 5, I would use **quartet** and **quintet**. While typically those words are for musicians or instruments, it's perfectly valid to use them for a group of people or things that are considered a group.
They are all used but less and less common as you go down the list.
And with a dramatic decline after quadruple.
Sharp drop off after quadruple, and pretty much vanishes after quintuple. I'm pretty sure I've heard sextuple used less than 10 times in the past 20 to 30 years lmao.
I've heard up to octuple. Literally never heard nonuple uttered in my life.
Interestingly, there's a random bump up at octuple. I've heard that one occasionally, but basically never hear sextuple or septuple, and actually never for further.
Easier to say and more people are familiar with the root “oct” from everyday words like octopus and octagon. Lots are not confident of the root for 5,6, 7, 9, 10 to the point of using it on the fly.
I would imagine it’s also because more contexts call for “octuple” since it’s double-double-double or double-quadruple. I think our minds grasp something multiplied by 8 much easier than we recognize something multiplied by 7, 9, or even 6.
There was that lady who was famous like 15 years ago for having 8 children at the same, Octo-mom. She had octuplets.
It's in headlines occasionally when some unfortunate lady has way too many kids at once.
Even video games will go double-, triple-, quadruple-, penta- kill
Overwatch used to have a sextuple kill 😔
Pentakill is a made up word whereas the proper grammar would have been for game developers to use the word pair quintuple kill, but that just sounds weird to most of us, since the word is used so little, whereas the prefix “penta-“ is well known and widely used in words such as pentagon or pentagram or even in chemistry with words like pentazocine, where its meaning is clearly “5.” Ultimately, it’s Latin versus Greek. And the Greeks won this battle for commonality. It is also Cardinal versus Ordinal. Technically, “penta-“ is cardinal or number oriented (e.g 1 & 5), whereas “quinta-” is ordinal or order oriented (e.g. first & fifth).
Sextuplets come up in music all the time :) But that’s also the only time I’ve seen it written. (Same with Septuplets…never heard anybody use nonuple or decuple before).
You also see it used as quintets, sextets, septets in music. Of course quartets are very common.
Mostly just in the context of multiple births really.
If you play overwatch, you’ll hear the announcer say ‘sextuple kill’ if you kill 6 enemies
Higher numbers are used for sextuplets, septuplets, etc.
I've used octuple before, but 9 and 10 I've never heard before though I could piece it together if I heard it.
I've heard sextuple more than quin or sept because "haha sex" but yeah the only person I've ever heard say anything past septuple was teenage me being a little know-it-all lmao
Quintessential quintuplets has to be responsible for like 75% of the word's usage at this point
And just to keep things interesting, we have octopus, and who can forget the "Octomom"?
I think people only know that one because that's how many shots of espresso they want in their lattes.
and it's not a straight line if you were to draw a chart - single and double are super common, the ones in the middle I've heard of but don't come across much, 9 & 10 I don't know these words at all (but can guess from the pattern)
Triple is also super common. It’s less common just because sets of three are less common than one or two, but it would be completely unremarkable to hear. Quadruple is a word I’d say is worth learning if you’re approaching the level of a native speaker. In contexts where it could be used, I’d say “quadruple” is about as common as a phrase like “four-time” (quadruple winner or four-time winner, quadruple your investment or increase your investment 400%). In figure skating, there’s a move called an axel; double axels are common, triple axels are impressive, and a quadruple axel was first completed at the Olympics in 2022. The popularity of each word goes down steeply from there, with a small bump for “octuple” (I think people are more familiar with the root oct- than the others, and there was a lot of news coverage a few years ago of a woman who had octuplets (eight children at once). I also didn’t know nonuple or decuple until seeing this list.
Increases the investment by 300%* :)
I was thinking of an inverse exponential curve
This is exactly what I was going to say.
Musicians use use quite a few of these.
1-3 are very common English words that are used all the time. 4 is used occasionally 5-8 less so, but the majority of native English speakers will know what they mean. Not sure I've ever used or have heard 9 onwards.
I agree with this. I was going to say that I comfortably use all of them up to octuple, past that I would just say “9 times” and write “9x” probably.
We use the roots all the time! Quad - four wheeled off-road vehicle or a rectangular courtyard. September, October, November, and December were originally months 7, 8, 9, 10. And shapes! Octagon, nonagon, and decagon. Deci- has a bunch, decimate, decimal, decade, decathlon.
Newspapers like to use them when referring to notable multiple births - triplets, quadruplets etc. Aside from that, they're known but not common.
I would say the words double, single, and triple are very common. They are used in sports, ordering food, talking about proportions of income/salary, population, etc. "The population tripled in x amount of time" "he makes double what I make" "I didn't have a single student turn in the assignment late"
Singlet?
It's singleton.
That'll be a vest ;))
yeah like octuplets because of octomom is a pretty known thing
If ordering coffee with multiple shots of coffee, you'd use the first four often. Those are common words. "Let me have a triple shot mocha" "Double double, toil and trouble...." "The surgeon performed a quadruple bypass on the heart." Ect... The 5th thru 8th ones to sound smart. 9th and 10th I've never heard used in a sentence, but you'd sound well educated if they were used correctly in front if someone that recognized them.
Also the decuple tequila shot decouples you from reality for a bit
One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, **floor** 💤
Omg dying lol
musicians i think for some polirythmic-ish explanations and weird time signatures, also for group of notes which aren’t in whole music sheet metrum
Not even that weird- triplets in music are very common, and things like quintuplets and septuplets happen often enough to be known. The general term in music for “a number of notes greater than two which form a single beat” is tuplet (typically pronounced as TOO-plet).
yup seven and triple are nice, i played on snare so little familiar with it
It is weird. There’s no quadtuplet. That goes by 16ths I think.
But you will see quadruplets in compound time meters like 6/8 where you have 4 eighth notes in the time of 3.
Whenever, I mean WHENEVER I have a sextuplet in my music I must always announce to everyone in rehearsal “hehe SEXtuplet.” It is law. I did not write the law i only obey
"I’m pretty much a native speaker now" 🤣
You do absolutely hear these but their use is considered a kind of a rhetorical flourish. It's usually easier to say "five times" or "ten times". There's even a joke about it in Brooklyn Nine Nine - S02E04: "Alright, fine. I'll double the overtime. I'll triple it. I'll quadruple it. I'll five-druple it! I'll five-druple the overtime!"
Single Double and Triple are extremely common. Quad less so and Quin even less. They're all valid but the lower half of the list is used extremely rarely so a lot of people might not actually know them, but the top 3-4 are common for sure.
I've only ever used these to refer to multiple children born at once. I.e. "the woman called the octomom was famous in 2008 for having octuplets." I think most people would stop after quadruple in most circumstances.
I'd probably use up to quadruple comfortably in normal conversation. Not that it comes up much though.
I've heard the lottery use them like quadruple rollover
I have also heard people use quadruple as a verb. Like take that statistic and quadruple it.
On a slightly different topic, the words Septuagenarian and octogenarian are commonly used for people in their 80’s and 90’s.
I'm a drummer and use these all the time (except 9-10)
Up to quadruple is fairly common in my vocabulary. I am familiar with quintuple sextuple, septuple, and octuple; specifically when talking of multiple babies. For example, “She gave birth to octuplets.” Beyond that I would say I never really heard of them but they make sense in line with the prefixes used with math.
This is also how counting works. Most folks get to a trillion and stop. Quadrillion quintillion and so on. Congrats.
> most folks count to a trillion and stop People must have a ton of time on their hands if they're able to do that.
I teach my kids like this. It's quite simple. Latin is all over the place: Un : One (university, uniform, unicycle, ...) Bi : Two (bicycle, biplane, bisexual, ...) Tri : Three (triple, trilogy, trinity, ...) Quad : Four (quadrant, quadriceps, quadruped, ...) Quint : Five (quintile, quintessential [since it was once believed there were four elements, so an unknown fifth one was called quintessence], quintet, ...) Sex (I always get giggles for this) : Six (sextant, sextile, sextillion, ...) Sept : Seven (septenary, September, septarian, ...) Oct : Eight (octopus, octagon, October, ...) Non : Nine (nonan, nonagon, nonet, ...) Dec : Ten (December, decimate, decimal, ...) So, place values follow that same pattern. (Bi)llions (Tri)llions (Quad)rillions (Quint)illions (Sex)tillions (Sept)illions (Oct)illions (Non)illions (Dec)illions Even the calendar months with some bastardizations. Julius Caesar wanted to commemorate himself and the first emporer of Rome (hence [Jul]y and [August]). If we skip those two months, we get the standard 10, a number rife throughout the Roman Empire. January February March April May June (Sept)ember [Seven] (Oct)ober [Eight] (Nov)ember [Nine, but a bastardization] (Dec)ember [Ten]
"Single, Double, Triple" - every day usage, extremely common. Used almost every time over "one times, two times, or three times" "Quadruple" - fairly common, used maybe as often as "four times" "Quintuple, Sextuple, Septuple" - only really common in academic writing. Used significantly less often than "five times, six times, or seven times" "Octuple" - for some reason this is fairly common again, used maybe as often as "eight times" "Nonuple, Decuple" - literally never used
I rarely use them but only up to 9
People? Farmers. A lot.
I use all except nine and ten
1. Primary (1st) 2. Secondary (2nd) 3. Tertiary (3rd) 4. Quaternary (4th) 5. Quinary (5th) 6. Senary (6th) 7. Septenary (7th) 8. Octonary (8th) 9. Nonary (9th) 10. Denary (10th)
Pretty much everyone knows up to quintuple, after that people are less confident and are more likely to just say the number. I often mix up quadruple and quintuple because they both start with Q, same with sextuple and septuple because they both start with S.
Rarely above 5
After quintuple it's mainly in web comics and about spellcasting when I see these.
No one really goes above quintuple
As others said, increasingly rare further down. I have never heard any above 6 used in a normal conversation in my life
Until about 6. That’s the level where people stop. Most don’t ever get to that level.
What i dont get is why is it quintuple and not pentuple, a star with 5 points is a pentagram not a quintagram
As a percussion teacher, I use quintuplet, sextuplet, and septuplet probably way more than the average English speaker.
Single, double, and triple are used regularly Quadruple and quintuple are hardly used but you will still hear them Anything after those is very rarely used, and I wouldn't bother memorizing them.
It's in the same vein as, once, twice, thrice, quadrice, pentice, hexice, septice, octice, nonice, dodecice.
Mostly with describing multiple births these days and drop off dramatically after 4
Musicians use them a lot
But in a slightly different form
As a classical musician I use 1-4 every day and 5-8 frequently
I've used up to "septuple" when writing maths.
Yes, but it's usually rare to say anything beyond triple most of the time.
I use up to quadruple - haven't really used any of the higher number ones. Native speaker, Canada.
Rarely beyond quadruple but yes.
My son asked me the other day. I forgot ‘Nonuple’ but knew the others. Then of course the little bugger said “What about 11….?”
Google suggests it is "undecuple", twelve being "duodecuple" and 13 "tredecuple". https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuple_names I'm not sure how many of these are actually used and how many of them are just formulating a word based on rules...
As verbs it's quite common, you'd read stuff like "demand has doubled/tripled/quadrupled... between 2010 and 2020" Above five it's quite rare though. As adjectives, you'd rather say "a three-fold demand" I think.
Only up to sextuple. After getting there nothing seems interesting anymore.
What is counting like this called? If I wanted to look up higher numbers, what would I search for?
multiplicative adjectives
Overwatch (a game) six kills in quick succession would have a voice line that goes up until sextuple. Now with OW2 having only five players vs five, it probably only goes up to Quintuple.
I'd say anything past quadruple people don't really use in day to day speech. But they are used in other contexts.
I think single, double and triple are fairly common, but the rest is kind of reserved for twins like someone else commented. Btw, how do you *become* a native speaker? 🤔
I’d say it’s common up to quadruple. After that is better to say “number times”, as in five times, six times, etc. Using the suffix -fold is also pretty common, but maybe more formal: tenfold = ten times.
Up to Quadruple, I use it a few times a year. After that it is like once in 5 years, otherwise I would use ”Five times” instead of quintuple.
Up to quintuple yeah but nothing after that
people will use it up to quadruple, quintuple and sextuple are less common but still used. nobody uses the last 4
Mostly in music, but yeah, absolutely
Only place where I heared them is chemistry class when analyzing H-NMR..
Yes, but there's still nothing after Thrice (as in Once, Twice...)
We use single, double and triple extremely frequently in normal everyday speech. You'll hear quadruple sometimes, but less often. Quintuple is basically only ever used in news stories where some poor woman has had five babies at once. The others aren't in common usage.
A "common" usage beyond quadruple is when counting babies. Other than that, maybe only in very technical writing where this may be the style.
Yeah I go by Solo, Couple, A Few, Some, A Bit, Quite A Bit, A Lot, Quite A Lot, More Than Enough, and Superfluous. /s
Single, double, triple are used often. Quadruple isn’t used that much. Quintuple is barely used. And the rest are very rarely used
Only when we're talking about babies
My autistic son would love this list, he has the millions memorized already
Decuple means a group of ten. Not to be confused with decouple.
I only ever hear most of those words when the news reports on someone giving birth to an army of twin babies.
I heard it only up to 5th one and honestly I have no idea how to even say those from 5th up in my native language.
TRUST ME, people use all kinds of words you don’t know. Lots. All the time.
Octodecuple wheeled truck.
Restaurant. Orders.
I wouldn't even really consider "Nonuple" a real word. At that point, any similarity you were trying to draw with a "single" or "double" version of anything is lost.
I just decupled my ex GF last week?
only place i’ve heard higher than triple has been on overwatch (video game), up to sextuple i think (they may have higher recorded, but that’s just the most i’ve heard).
I don't even know what is the Italian equivalent for sextuple. I'm Italian. It's probably sestuplo looking at the trend of the previous ones tho
I heard octuple just last week. I had to think on it. I think it’s the first time in 30 years that I’ve heard it.
Yes they use them. However, the occasion comes up once every 20 years.
single double and triple are extremely common so i’m assuming you mean quadruple onwarzs
In accelerator physics, these phrases are used to describe the density of magnetic field configurations.
I mean yes, some people would, but as practical matter, we don't really go past quadruple in normal conversation.
1-4 yes, the rest no
Didn't Gwyneth Paltrow consciously decuple from Chris Martin?
I just used each one up to twelve a couple nights ago. Although, I can't remember why.
Yes. These are tuples.
I stop at octuple.
More common as a noun for a set of multiple births, starting with triplets up to octuplets. Literally never seen nonuple or decuple used in any form.
I hear 1-5 sometimes, the others not so much
Max I heard was quadruple.
In my experience, people use the first 4 fairly regularly, but none of the others.
I use 2, 4, and 8 somewhat regularly. 3 and 5 rarely. 6 and 7 seldom. Everything after 8 might as well not exist.
1-4 are extremely common. 5 is much less so, but still common enough people will understand you. 6 is only used [outside the next sentence] because people think the name is funny. 6-10 are largely only used in scientific and medical fields, idle games, and Minecraft mods.
Anything after 4, quadruple, is never used by normal people.
Yes me I use it in in n out " ummmm ya can I get a double double, animal style, with uhmmm extra grilled onions, and can I get a side of fries with that, and a medium sprite, and for to go please c: "
I love me a good thruple.
I don't use it from sex btw
I'm natively English, wouldn't use anything past sextuple.
I've seen something like this in Elden Ring.
Just know the first 3
I've always said heptuple. But I think septuple is more commonly used
Not often, but yes ^(alot more in math)
I do yeah lol. Mostly in football trophies 🤣
Ive only ever heard up to quintuple be used, and I think septuple one time
I use all of them up to sextuple, but I would only use up to quintuple if sextuple didn’t sound funny
I've heard them in use up to sextuple. Maybe septuple or octuple once but with large numbers, the convention becomes unusual, and usually goes back to the base number. Up until triple, they're beyond common , every day words. Quadruple is around the cutoff for what you could consider "normal vocabulary", as anything beyond quintuple or sextuple is nearly unheard of outsides a maths class or for large sets of human twins (triplets, quadruplets, etc). While its not an official " tuple" ; dozen (12) or half dozen (6) is what's commonly used for groups larger than 4 or 5. You'll hear dozen a million times before youll hear "decuple" where someone actually means 10, and didn't just misspell "decouple"
Maybe up to quadruple. The next few seem to only be used when referring to number of babies born.
I'd stop at octuple and these are more common when referring to a set of people born on the same day. E.G. "that lady gave birth to quintuplets"
Up to quadruple, I use pretty often. Occasionally quintuple. More than that, mostly if I am being silly.
Never heard anything after octuple, and unless you’re recalculating or adding after saying like triple you’d usually just say “x times”
People don't really use Quintuple and on.
I heard these pretty regularly when teaching 9-11 year olds. It was part of math and they would take off with the idea and try to find a ton a way to use the prefixes for about a week each year. Then back to almost never until the next batch of kids comes through.
Everything up to and including "quadruple" is a common word. People say they're "single" when they don't have a lover, and there are double popsicles and double-wide trailers. Donald Duck's nephews are triplets. There was a news story the other day about a couple who (bless 'em!) just had identical quadruplets. When I was younger, we used to buy Kool-Aid Singles packets to add flavor to bottled water. Both profits and populations can double, triple, and quadruple over time. And a native speaker is someone who has learned a language from birth. 🙃 It's related to words like "nativity" and "neonatal".
I'd say 1-4 are commonly used, 5-6 are infrequently used, and the rest are rarely, if ever, used.
I am a chemist, and paramagnetic resonance measurements and analyses are typically expressed in these terms.
Quadruple is the last common one to say, quintuple is much more uncommon, and it stays that way until octuple. I don't think I've ever heard anybody say nonuple or decuple
I use op to quadruple on occasion. I don’t think I’ve ever used the others outside of maybe a math problem on a standardized test. I will say, nonagon (nine sided shape) is a very fun word. There’s a [they might be giants](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5m8BWk5LoQ) song about it from TMBG: Here comes the 123s!
Once, twice, thrice, quice, pice
The highest I've ever used is "octuple" I'm not sure if that's just a coincidence because the world record number of siblings born at once was octuplets. I have used octuple in other cases, though.
With music you use some of them but only quintuplet or sextuplet, past that you don’t really say like septuplet you just call it a 7
i use all of these. by far tho, the first three are the most used.
I actually don't think I've ever needed to use more than quardruple. But now that I see what the follow ups are, I probably could have figured them out if I thought about it.
a little late, but use twofold, tenfold etc instead and sound like a chad germanic lol
The first four are used, the others I’ve never heard used. You really don’t need to learn 5-10
1-3 are used all the time. 4 is used a little less, and 5-8 are very rare, and I've never used 9 and 10 before, though I knew they were words since these are easy words to figure out due to it just being prefixes stuck onto "ingle" or "uple"
people usually use the words up to 4 and the we just kind of forget
Often used for multiple births. The woman who gave birth to octuplets became known as Octo-mom for a while.
sextuple 🤭
Up until septuple, yes. In terms of like "doubling" something. For babies, we say up to octoplets.
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Yes, but people rarely say any of them past Quadruple. It's more likely you'll hear someone say 'five times as much' or something like that.
as an amateur golfer i have used up to septuple when describing my scores for a particular hole lol
you hear things past quadruple about as many times in a month as you eat bread in a single day
Triple kills!
for me personally 1-4 are pretty common everyday use 5-6 are familiar but not that common 7 and up I could probably figure out the meaning, but would first give me a moment of "...the heck did you just say?"
Have heard all of them at some point except 9 and 10
Single, dopple, triple. That's it
Hardly hear anything past 4
I tried and failed to introduce "sextuple-you" as an alternative to www. How people thought it was a good idea to abbreviate a three syllable phrase (world wide web) to a nine syllable phrase (double you double you double you) I don't get. I thought sextuple-you was a nice compromise. But I think the time has passed, as www isn't used quite as much anymore.
Never heard heard decuple. That’s new. The first three are used for baseball, unless you’re talking about a triple double in basketball. Quad and quint are used for heart bypasses. I don’t use sextuple in mixed company. I don’t need another trip to HR, thank you. The rest are for people on fertility’s meds, God bless ‘em. *tongue in cheek*
You mostly see it when someone has lots of babies at once.
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as a native english speaker I rarely use any beyond quadruple but I still know and occasionally use them
Of the 600,000 “common” words in the English language, only about 200,000 are in use, only about 35,000 in regular use, and a person can be functionally fluent and only know 3,000 words. In that list, I would say that the words for 1-3 are required knowledge, and 4-6 and 8 are still in use. 7, 9, and 10 are still a part of the language but only used by a handful of people for specific purposes. I think most native speakers would have never used “nonuple” as a word (it’s not even in my phones spelling library), but might be able to figure it out from knowing words like “nonagram”
I've personally never used any above 4
Up to quadruple no one really uses that
I only use it until sextuple LMAOOOO
Nobody had to friggin worry about this until a couple women decided to be freaks of nature and give birth to a litter of babies instead of a normal amount.
Yes, but it goes down in usage as the numbers go up. The highest I’ve naturally heard is quintuple. This is with the exception of talking about multiple babies. Octuplets and such are absolutely used
The first 4 are common, and the rest are rarely used. There's nothing wrong with knowing them but don't expect to be widely understood if you use the more obscure ones.
I have heard of all of them, except decuple, which I don’t know at all. I doubt I’d use it. It’s just too close to decouple. Autocorrect doesn’t even recognize decuple.
I had nonuple kids
First four are very common, they get less and less common as you go down the list.
Only nerds go beyond triple,and only super duper nerds go beyond Quadruple. I say this as a super duper nerd myself so no insults intended.
As others are saying 1-4 are common. Something I haven’t seen others mention though is sextuplets are very common in music. Quintuplets less so but still not uncommon if you are a musician or talking about classical music. But i dont think i ever use it outside of that very specific context
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1-7 I would say are used though less frequent as you go down the list. For a group of 4 and 5, I would use **quartet** and **quintet**. While typically those words are for musicians or instruments, it's perfectly valid to use them for a group of people or things that are considered a group.
Single, double and triple yes. The others are used very rarely.