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nineteenth

nine·teenth/ˌnaɪnˈtiːnθ/adjective, noun

nineteenth is spelled N-I-N-E-T-E-E-N-T-H, 2 syllables: nine·teenth. The wrong spelling people search most is ninteenth: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 23 of all searches for the word. Nineteenth is an adjective meaning “The ordinal form of the number nineteen”.

How many letters and syllables are in nineteenth?

Letters10: N-I-N-E-T-E-E-N-T-H
Syllables2: nine·teenth
In writing5.8 times per million words; the 10,196th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, ninteenth, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them)

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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).

How do you spell nineteenth?

Nineteenth is spelled N-I-N-E-T-E-E-N-T-H. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 24 of the searches for nineteenth in either form.

nineteenththe right spelling450 searches a month
ninteentha missing e20 searches a month

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 nineteenth?

Nineteenth appears 5.8 times per million words in written English, the 10,196th 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 nineteenth?

  • /ˌnaɪnˈtiːnθ/

Nineteenth has 2 syllables, split nine·teenth in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-nineteenth.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of nineteenth

  • nineteenths plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does nineteenth mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    The ordinal form of the number nineteen.

noun

  1. 1

    The person or thing in the nineteenth position.

  2. 2

    One of nineteen equal parts of a whole.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Nineteenth in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchdix-neuvième, dix-neuf (the ordinal form of the number nineteen – see…)
Germanneunzehnte (the ordinal form of the number nineteen – see…)
Portuguesedécimo nono (the ordinal form of the number nineteen – see…)
Spanishdecimonoveno (the ordinal form of the number nineteen – see…), diecinueveavo (one of nineteen equal parts of a whole)

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 nineteenth come from?

From nineteen + -th.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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