How to spell ninety-eight

hear it/'naɪnti_eɪt/adjectivePrefixes and work

What it means: Being two less than one hundred in number.

In a sentence: There are ninety-eight bright stars in the sky tonight.

The part people get wrong

Watch for the order of ei.

Same family: nineteen, eighteen, eighty, ninety-nine, ninety-seven. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Ninety comes from Old English “nigontig,” meaning “nine tens,” and eight comes from Old English “eahta.” The hyphenated form “ninety-eight” follows modern English rules for writing compound numbers from twenty-one to ninety-nine.

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