How to spell nineteenth

hear itnine·teenth/'naɪn'tinθ/nounSilent and tricky

What it means: The day or item coming next after the eighteenth.

In a sentence: The school field trip is planned for the nineteenth of April.

The part people get wrong

Watch for double e. Often misspelled as nineteeth or nineth.

Same family: ninth, nineteen, ninetieth, twentieth, eighteenth. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Nineteenth comes from Old English roots: "nine" plus "-teen" (meaning "ten more"), and the ordinal ending "-th." Together they literally mean "the ten-and-nine-th" item in a series.

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