# teeny vs ten

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### teeny
*adjective · IPA /ˈtiː.ni/ · frequency rank #27,311*
Very small; tiny.

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