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Twentieth Pronunciation
Twentieth is pronounced TWEN-tee-uhth, IPA /ˈtwɛniəθ/.
TWEN-tee-uhth
US /ˈtwɛniəθ/ · UK /ˈtwɛntiəθ/
Syllables: TWEN · tee · uhth (3 syllables, stress on syllable 1)
ordinal number: Coming after the nineteenth in a sequence.
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Twentieth in a Sentence
- Her twentieth birthday falls on a Sunday.
- This is the twentieth year of the festival.
- He finished twentieth out of sixty.
Common Mispronunciations of Twentieth
Not twen-TEE-uhth
The weight stays at the front, where twenty has it. The ending adds a syllable but takes no stress.
Not TWEN-tee-uhf
The word closes with the voiceless th of month, tongue tip at the top teeth. An f is the nearest wrong neighbour.
Tip: In American speech the t after n often disappears, giving TWEN-ee-uhth. That is normal rather than careless.
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