twenty
The cardinal number 20, occurring after nineteen and before twenty-one.
Number 1 meaning
The cardinal number 20, occurring after nineteen and before twenty-one.
Noun 3 meanings
The numbers twenty (20) to twenty-nine (29).
“She looks like she's in her early twenties, perhaps 21 or 22 years old?”
A banknote with a denomination of 20.
“The waiter’s face lit up when I gave him a twenty.”
10-20 (location).
“What’s your twenty, good buddy?”
Etymology
From Middle English twenty, twenti, from Old English twēntiġ (“twenty”, literally “two tens”), from Proto-Germanic *twaintigiwiz, *twai tigiwiz, an old compound of *twain- (“two”) + *-tigaz (“group of ten”), equivalent to two + -ty, or twain + -ty.
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TWENTY at a glance
TWENTY has 6 letters and scores 12 points in Scrabble (T 1 + W 4 + E 1 + N 1 + T 1 + Y 4) and 12 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #2,219 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with twenty
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