# twenties vs twentieth

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### twenties
*noun · frequency rank #15,538*
The third decade of a century: the 1820s, 1920s, 2020s, etc.

### twentieth
*adjective · IPA /ˈtwɛn.ti.əθ/ · frequency rank #9,683*
The ordinal form of the number twenty.

## Source
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