# temp vs ten

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### temp
*noun · IPA /tɛmp/ · frequency rank #10,459*
Clipping of temperature.

### 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.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/temp-vs-ten