twenty-four
/ˌtwɛntiˈfɔː/
"twenty-four" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“twenty-four” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a numeral. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The cardinal number immediately following twenty-three and preceding twenty-five.
Corpus desk
Index EN-twenty-four · twenty-four · English
twenty-four · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | twenty-four |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Numeral |
| IPA | /ˌtwɛntiˈfɔː/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “twenty-four” in English
Rare enough to double-check
twenty-four is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anumeral, transcribed /ˌtwɛntiˈfɔː/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The cardinal number immediately following twenty-three and preceding twenty-five.".
twenty-four doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is twenty-four, spelled T-W-E-N-T-Y---F-O-U-R.
Definition
- 1The cardinal number immediately following twenty-three and preceding twenty-five.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how twenty-four appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"The guy that just left—what's he got in his lungs?" / "Well, I'm not very sure. But the two best candidates are uranium-233 and plutonium-239, one or both." / "They're in his bones too, aren't they?" / "Yeah, they're both boneseekers. And they've got half-lives of one hundred sixty-two thousand and twenty-four thousand years respectively. So they stay ho…
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.