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ninety

/ˈnaɪn.ti/ UK
/ˈnaɪn.di/ US
/ˈnaɪn.ti/ US
/ˈno̞ɪn.ti/

Rhymes with -aɪnti, -aɪndi

Where it comes from

From Middle English nynty, nynety, from Old English hundniġontiġ, from Proto-Germanic *newuntēhundą (“ninety”), equivalent to nine + -ty. Cognate with Scots nynty, nynety (“ninety”), Saterland Frisian njuugentich (“ninety”), West Frisian njoggentich (“ninety”), Dutch negentig (“ninety”), German Low German negentig (“ninety”), German neunzig (“ninety”), Swedish nittio (“ninety”), Norwegian Bokmål nitti (“ninety”), Norwegian Nynorsk nitti (“ninety”), Icelandic níutíu (“ninety”).

number

The cardinal number occurring after eighty-nine and before ninety-one, represented in Roman numerals as XC and in Arabic numerals as 90.
Similar: 90, XC

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: cardinal, xc, eighty, hundred, nine, nines, ninety-nine, sixth, nonagenarian, ninetyish, seventy, sixty, forty, thirty, twenty, fifteen

Translations

Every language

num 90

Español	noventa
한국어	아흔 aheun, 구십 gusip
日本語	九十
中文	九十 jiǔshí
हिन्दी	नब्बे nabbe, नव्वे navve
Kiswahili	tisini
Português	noventa
Français	quatre-vingt-dix, nonante
Deutsch	neunzig
Italiano	novanta
Ελληνικά	ενενήντα enenínta
Română	nouăzeci
Русский	девяно́сто devjanósto
Tiếng Việt	chín mươi
العربية	تِسْعِينَ tisʕīna, تِسْعُونَ tisʕūna
עברית	תִּשְׁעִים tishʿím

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@misc{ninety_2026,
  title = {ninety},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ninety},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}