# tenth

> English word · Adjective · IPA /tɛnθ/ · frequency rank #8,097

## Definitions
1. The ordinal numeral form of ten; next in order after that which is ninth.
2. Being one of ten equal parts of a whole.

## Etymology
From Middle English tenth, tenthe. Old English had tēoþa (origin of Modern English tithe), but the force of analogy to the cardinal number "ten" caused Middle English speakers to recreate the regular ordinal and re-insert the nasal consonant. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *tehundô. Equivalent to ten (numeral) + -th (suffix forming ordinals).

## Easily confused with
- **TNT** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tenth-vs-tnt)
- **tet** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tenth-vs-tet)
- **test** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tenth-vs-test)
- **text** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tenth-vs-text)
- **tint** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tenth-vs-tint)
- **Toth** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tenth-vs-toth)
- **truth** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tenth-vs-truth)
- **tests** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tenth-vs-tests)
- **texts** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tenth-vs-texts)
- **tooth** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tenth-vs-tooth)
- **Trent** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tenth-vs-trent)
- **tents** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tenth-vs-tents)
- **tonto** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tenth-vs-tonto)
- **tints** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tenth-vs-tints)
- **twenty** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tenth-vs-twenty)
- **trench** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tenth-vs-trench)
- **ten** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ten-vs-tenth)
- **teh** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/teh-vs-tenth)
- **tech** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tech-vs-tenth)
- **tend** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tend-vs-tenth)

## Common misspellings (8)
`etnth`, `tenht`, `tennth`, `tenthh`, `tentth`, `tetnh`, `tneth`, `ttenth`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/tenth