# tenth vs twenty

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### tenth
*adjective · IPA /tɛnθ/ · frequency rank #8,097*
The ordinal numeral form of ten; next in order after that which is ninth.

### twenty
*num · IPA /ˈtwɛnti/ · frequency rank #2,274*
The cardinal number 20, occurring after nineteen and before twenty-one.

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