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ten^¹

/tɛn/ US, UK
[tʰɛn] US, UK
/tɪn/ pin pen merger
/ten/ Australia, New Zealand

Sounds like tin (pin–pen merger) · Rhymes with -ɛn, (pin–pen merger) -ɪn

Where it comes from

PIE word

*déḱm̥

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.

number

The number occurring after nine and before eleven, represented in Arabic numerals (base ten) as 10 and in Roman numerals as X. 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.

noun tens

countable, uncountable A set or group with ten elements. We divided the chocolates into tens to hand out to Hallowe'en visitors.
countable, in plural, uncountable An inexact quantity, typically understood to be between 20 and 100. Our houses are tens of meters apart, so we don't have to worry about noise from our neighbours.
countable A card in a given suit with a value of ten.
countable A denomination of currency, such as a banknote, with a value of ten units. Can you give me two tens for this twenty?
Similar: tenner
US, countable, slang A perfect specimen, (particularly) a physically attractive person. I was in the Woodley Park–Zoo in D.C. and mom and sister were waiting to see the pandas, so me and my pops broke away to check out the monkey house. Well, there was a beautiful teacher, I mean we're talking a ten, she was blond, had a low-cut dress on, just gorgeous. And she has about eight or nine
Similar: dime piece
US, countable, slang A high level of intensity. "Intensities in 10 Cities"
countable The act of rowing ten strokes flat out. At the 1,000-metres post we gave a ten, which raised our lead to 1⅔ lengths; the Belgians were rowing hard, but one felt that they still had plenty of spurting power.

TEN^²

proper noun

abbreviation Abbreviation of Tennessee

noun

abbreviation, initialism, uncountable Initialism of toxic epidermal necrolysis

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: decade, cardinal, tenner, x, tenfold, dozen, twelve, nine, fourteenth, thirteenth, fifteenth, tenth, five, six, one-tenth, october

Translations

Every language

num the cardinal number occurring after 9 and before 11

Español	diez
한국어	열 yeol, 십 sip, 텐 ten
日本語	十, テン ten
中文	十 shí
हिन्दी	दस das, दश daś, दह dah
Kiswahili	kumi
Português	dez
Français	dix
Deutsch	zehn
Italiano	dieci
Ελληνικά	δέκα déka, ι΄
Română	zece
Русский	де́сять désjatʹ, де́сятеро désjatero
Tiếng Việt	mười, chục
العربية	عَشَرَة ʕašara
עברית	עֶשֶׂר éser, עֲשָׂרָה asara

noun set or group with ten elements

Español	decena
हिन्दी	दस das, दश daś, दह dah
Français	dizaine
Ελληνικά	δεκάδα dekáda
Русский	деся́ток desjátok

noun playing card with a value of ten

Español	diez
हिन्दी	दहला dahlā
Deutsch	Zehner

noun denomination of currency with a value of ten

Deutsch	Zehnerl
Italiano	dieci

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@misc{ten_2026,
  title = {ten},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ten},
  urldate = {2026-11-05}
}

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