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Plural of tenth

regular plural

The plural of tenth is tenths.

Forms of tenth

Singulartenth /tɛnθ/
Pluraltenths
Countablecountable

Tenths in a sentence

  • Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847
  • Translate: I was caught in such a traffic jam that I needed a microcentury for a picoparsec and that my car’s fuel consumption was two tenths of a square millimetre.2014, Christoph Schiller, Motion Mountain, edition 27.06, volume IV, page 204. From the entry microcentury

Meaning of tenth

  1. adjective The ordinal numeral form of ten; next in order after that which is ninth.
  2. adjective Being one of ten equal parts of a whole.
  3. noun The person or thing coming next after the ninth in a series; that which is in the tenth position.

Full definition of tenth

Questions about the plural of tenth

What is the plural of tenth?
The plural of tenth is tenths.
Is tenth countable?
Tenth is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tenth (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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