# ten vs two

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### 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.

### two
*num · IPA /tu/ · frequency rank #86*
A numerical value equal to 2; this many dots (••).

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ten-vs-two