8th
"8th" is a 2-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“8th” is a regularly-used English word, ranked #4,731 in English word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #4,731
- frequency rank, English
- 3
- letters
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Abbreviation of eighth.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | 8th |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #4,731 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “8th” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for 8th is 3 letters long, classified as an adjective. Corpus data places it at rank #4,731 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Abbreviation of eighth.".
8th doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "8", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is 8th, spelled 8-T-H.
Definition
- 1Abbreviation of eighth.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “8th”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is 8-T-H - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “8” - see the side-by-side comparison. 8th vs 8
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.