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Word entry · 3 letters

ten

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"Perfect score"

3 letters · collected on this word page

3 lettersPronunciation /tɛn/Part of speech adjective, nounSorted entStarts with TEnds with N2 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. being one more than nine

Word origin

From Middle English ten, tene, from Old English tīen, from Proto-West Germanic *tehun, from Proto-Germanic *tehun, from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥. Cognate with Scots ten, tene (“ten”), West Frisian tsien (“ten”), Saterland Frisian tjoon (“ten”), North Frisian tiin (“ten”). See also teen.

Used in a sentence

  • There is a melody upon the Earth as though ten thousand streams all sang together for their homes that they had forsaken in the hills.
  • A ten frame is a simple graphic tool that allows people to “see” numbers.
  • We divided the chocolates into tens to hand out to Hallowe'en visitors.

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues

01Perfect score3 letters
02Number after nine3 letters

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