twenty-six
/ˌtwɛntiˈsɪks/
"twenty-six" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“twenty-six” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a numeral. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The cardinal number immediately following twenty-five and preceding twenty-seven.
Corpus desk
Index EN-twenty-six · twenty-six · English
twenty-six · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 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-six |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Numeral |
| IPA | /ˌtwɛntiˈsɪks/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “twenty-six” in English
Rare enough to double-check
twenty-six is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anumeral, transcribed /ˌtwɛntiˈsɪks/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The cardinal number immediately following twenty-five and preceding twenty-seven.".
twenty-six has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is twenty-six, spelled T-W-E-N-T-Y---S-I-X.
Definition
- 1The cardinal number immediately following twenty-five and preceding twenty-seven.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how twenty-six appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
There are twenty-six letters in the English alphabet.
It was certainly an old smell – of that I could be certain. But it was not, I was sure, produced by any of the three thousand one hundred and twenty-six cheeses, yoghurts and fromages blancs that were being stored in the crypt.
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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.