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How to spell eleventh

What it means: Coming next after tenth.

In a sentence: The elephant was the eleventh animal in the parade. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as elventh or eleveth.

Same family: eleven, ten, twelve, elevenfold. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Eleventh” comes from Old English “endleoftha,” built from the word for eleven plus a suffix that marked order or position. The modern spelling and sound changed over time, but it still literally means “the one that is number eleven.”

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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