eighth
/eɪtθ/adjective, noun, verb
eighth is spelled E-I-G-H-T-H. The wrong spelling people search most is eightth: about 40 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 57 of all searches for the word. Eighth is an adjective meaning “The ordinal form of the number eight”.
How many letters and syllables are in eighth?
| Letters | 6: E-I-G-H-T-H |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 16 times per million words; the 5,121st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, eightth, about 40 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Pairs people search | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell eighth?
Eighth is spelled E-I-G-H-T-H. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 57 of the searches for eighth in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is eighth?
Eighth appears 16 times per million words in written English, the 5,121st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce eighth?
- UK /eɪtθ/
- US /eɪtθ/
- US /eɪθ/
Eighth has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-eighth.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with eighth
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: eight.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with eighth?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as eighth (/eɪtθ/).
Spelled with the same letters in another order: height.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of eighth
- eighths plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- eighthing participle, present
- eighthed participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does eighth mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
The ordinal form of the number eight.
noun
- 1
The person or thing in the eighth position.
- 2
One of eight equal parts of a whole.
Two bits equals two eighths of a dollar.
- 3
slangAn eighth of an ounce, or approximately 3.5 grams, of marijuana or other drugs.
- 4
An interval by doubling in pitch frequency.
verb
- 1
To divide by eight.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Eighth in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | huitième, huit |
| German | achte , Achte , Achtel , achteln |
| Portuguese | oitavo , oitava |
| Spanish | octavo |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does eighth come from?
Inherited from Middle English eightethe, from Old English eahtoþa, from Proto-Germanic *ahtudô; equivalent to eight + -th (ordinal suffix).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).