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Word entry · 6 letters

twenty

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6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /ˈtwɛnti/Part of speech adjective, nounSorted enttwyStarts with TEnds with Y2 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. being one more than nineteen

Word origin

From Middle English twenty, twenti, from Old English twēntiġ (“twenty”, literally “two tens”), from Proto-Germanic *twaintigiwiz, *twai tigiwiz, an old compound of *twain- (“two”) + *-tigaz (“group of ten”), equivalent to two + -ty, or twain + -ty. Cognate with Scots twenty, tuenty (“twenty”), West Frisian tweintich (“twenty”), Dutch twintig (“twenty”), German zwanzig (“twenty”), Danish tyve.

Used in a sentence

  • She looks like she's in her early twenties, perhaps 21 or 22 years old?
  • The waiter’s face lit up when I gave him a twenty.
  • Of course I can do them just the same as the others—technically there's nothing whatever against it. Only no one ever heard of soft flims for anything like that—only for fives or tens or at the most a twenty.

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Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues

01Score, numerically6 letters
02Two tens6 letters

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