# seventeen vs seventies

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### seventeen
*num · IPA /ˈsɛv.ən.tiːn/ · frequency rank #8,726*
The cardinal number occurring after sixteen and before eighteen, represented in Roman numerals as XVII and in Arabic numerals as 17.

### seventies
*noun · frequency rank #20,492*
The decade of the 1870s, 1970s, etc.

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