# eighth vs eighty

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### eighth
*adjective · IPA /eɪtθ/ · frequency rank #5,125*
The ordinal form of the number eight.

### eighty
*num · IPA /ˈeɪ.ti/ · frequency rank #10,356*
The cardinal number occurring after seventy-nine and before eighty-one, represented in Roman numerals as LXXX and in Arabic numerals as 80.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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