How to spell eighty-seven

hear it/'eɪti_'sɛvən/adjectivePrefixes and work

What it means: Being equal to eighty plus seven.

In a sentence: There are eighty-seven jellybeans in the jar.

The part people get wrong

Watch for the order of ei.

Same family: eighty, seventy-seven, eighty-eight, seventeen, ninety-seven. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The word eighty comes from Old English "eahtatig," meaning "eight tens," while seven comes from Old English "seofon." English writes numbers from twenty-one to ninety-nine with a hyphen, so eighty-seven follows that older Germanic pattern of combining tens and ones.

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