# seventh vs seventy

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### seventh
*adjective · IPA /ˈsɛvnθ/ · frequency rank #4,711*
The ordinal form of the number seven.

### seventy
*num · IPA /ˈsɛv.ən.ti/ · frequency rank #9,954*
The cardinal number occurring after sixty-nine and before seventy-one, represented in Roman numerals as LXX and in Arabic numerals as 70.

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