What part of speech is the word five?

Answer 1

The word five is both a noun and an adjective. The number or a quantity of five is the noun, for example 'There are five for me and five for you.' The adjective five describes a noun, for example five apples or five children.

Answer 2

Six can be a noun when it means the number itself. Numbers such as six are traditionally called adjectives when used with nouns, but may be called either quantifiers, determiners, or none of these.

(ordinal numbers such as sixth are more frequently still called adjectives)

Answer 3

Yes, it's a number (5), and can be called an adjective or quantifier when used with a noun (e.g, five men).

The number five alone is a noun (he rolled a five on the dice).

Answer 4

Five is a noun, also an adjective as in 'amounting to five in number'

Answer 5

adjective