twentieth
/ˈtwɛn.ti.əθ/
"twentieth" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“twentieth” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #9,683. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,683
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The ordinal form of the number twenty.
Corpus desk
Index EN-twentieth · twentieth · English
twentieth · rank #9,683 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #9,683
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH tutorial
Nearest frequency peer: tutorial (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “twentieth”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Trent
Trent
90,321 corpus weight
- trusts
trusts
90,320 corpus weight
- tutorial
tutorial
90,319 corpus weight
- twentieth
twentieth
90,318 corpus weight
- unpleasant
unpleasant
90,317 corpus weight
- unrelated
unrelated
90,316 corpus weight
What this shows “twentieth” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
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 | twentieth |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈtwɛn.ti.əθ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #9,683 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “twentieth”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around twentieth (IPA /ˈtwɛn.ti.əθ/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #9,683 among 3,151 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "The ordinal form of the number twenty.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for twentieth, with forms such as "tewntieth", "ttwentieth", and "tweniteth". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "twenties", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From earlier twenteth, twentith, from Middle English twentithe, twentiþe, from Old English twēntigoþa. Equivalent to twenty + -eth. Etymological notes twentith, twenteth is the expected development from Middle English twentithe, but in time, the opaque twen… The correct English form is twentieth, spelled T-W-E-N-T-I-E-T-H.
Definition
- 1The ordinal form of the number twenty.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how twentieth appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
As with most twentieth-century Chinese writers, little is known of Ts’ao Yü’s life. Though his ancestral home was Ch’ien-chiang 潛江, Hupei province, he himself was probably born in Tientsin in either 1909 or 1910.
The novel he lends his name to is an account of that life, taking more or less the form of a memoir set down in the years immediately after World War II by an old man mentally preparing for death, not quite at home in the twentieth century (and a little proud of it, stubbornly clinging to his eartrumpet), whose significant memories reach back to the early…
Etymology
From earlier twenteth, twentith, from Middle English twentithe, twentiþe, from Old English twēntigoþa. Equivalent to twenty + -eth. Etymological notes twentith, twenteth is the expected development from Middle English twentithe, but in time, the opaque twent- was replaced by a more transparent twenty-, resulting in modern twentieth (in the speech varieties this occurred in, the weak vowel in the final syllable of twenteth, twentith was clearly distinct from that in twenty); similar processes explain the modern pronunciation of thirtieth, fourtieth, etc. This analogy was assisted by synizetic pronunciations of words such as carrying, which allowed twenteth, twentith to be interpreted as contractions of twentieth.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- tewntieth
- ttwentieth
- tweniteth
- twenntieth
- twenteith
- twentieht
- twentiethh
- twentietth
- twentiteh
- twenttieth
- twetnieth
- twnetieth
- twwentieth
- wtentieth
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of twentieth - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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