Adjective may be more rigid in some languages than others; in some, like Spanish, it may only be a default ("unmarked") word order, with other orders being permissible. Other languages, such as Tagalog, follow their adjectival orders as rigidly as English. The normal adjectival order of English may be overridden in certain circumstances, especially when one adjective is being fronted. In addition, the usual order of adjectives in English would result in the phrase "the bad big wolf" (opinion before size), but instead the usual phrase is "the big bad wolf", perhaps because the ablaut reduplication rule that high vowels precede
Collateral adjective things from 1-10 are "hitotsu" (1つ)", futatsu" (2つ)", mittsu" (3つ), "yottsu" (4つ), "itsutsu" (5つ), "muttsu" (6つ), "nanatsu" (7つ), "yattsu" (8つ), "kokonotsu" (9つ)", and tō" (10). While the measure word for people, "nin" (人), usually uses cardinal numbers, such as "sannin" (3人), "hachinin" (8人), and "jūnin" (10人), the measures for 1 and 2 people use the ordinal numbers, which are "hitori" (1人) and "futari" (2人). Attributive usage of a collateral adjective is generally similar in meaning to attributive use of the corresponding noun. For example, "lunar rocket" and "moon rocket" are accepted as synonyms, as are "thermal capacity" and "heat capacity".