For the year A.D. 46, see 46.

Forty-six (46, XLVI) is the natural number following forty-five and preceeding forty-seven. Its divisors are 1, 2, 23, and 46; its factorisation is

Forty-six is also:

  • The atomic number of palladium.
  • The total of books in the Old Testament of the Holy Bible in the Catholic version if the Book of Lamentations is counted as a book separate from the Book of Jeremiah.
  • The code for direct dial international phone calls to Sweden.
  • Part of the title Forty-Six Lives, a translation by Henry Parker and Lord Morley of Boccaccio's play De claris mulieribus.