two hundred
/ˈtuː ˈhʌn.dɹəd/
"two-hundred" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“two hundred” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a numeral - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The cardinal number occurring after one hundred ninety-nine and before two hundred one, represented in Arabic numerals as 200.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | two hundred |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Numeral |
| IPA | /ˈtuː ˈhʌn.dɹəd/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “two hundred” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for two hundred is 11 letters long, classified as a numeral, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈtuː ˈhʌn.dɹəd/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "The cardinal number occurring after one hundred ninety-nine and before two hundred one, represented in Arabic numerals as 200.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for two hundred in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 two hundred, spelled T-W-O- -H-U-N-D-R-E-D.
Definition
- 1The cardinal number occurring after one hundred ninety-nine and before two hundred one, represented in Arabic numerals as 200.
This word in other languages
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.
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Using “two hundred”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is T-W-O- -H-U-N-D-R-E-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈtuː ˈhʌn.dɹəd/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.