# teak vs ten

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### teak
*noun · IPA /tiːk/ · frequency rank #35,552*
An extremely durable timber highly valued for shipbuilding and other purposes, yielded by Tectona grandis (and Tectona spp.).

### ten
*num · IPA /tɛn/ · frequency rank #959*
The number occurring after nine and before eleven, represented in Arabic numerals (base ten) as 10 and in Roman numerals as X.

## Source
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