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Plural of twenty

regular plural

The plural of twenty is twenties.

Forms of twenty

Singulartwenty /ˈtwɛnti/
Pluraltwenties
Countablecountable

Twenties in a sentence

  • She looks like she's in her early twenties, perhaps 21 or 22 years old?
  • The more a shop looks as though it trades in farthings and ha’pennies, the more tenners and twenties you can expect to hand over at the till.2020 September 1, Tom Lamont, “The butcher's shop that lasted 300 years (give or take)”, in The Guardian
  • Please pay me in cash — preferably in tens and twenties.From the entry in
  • She shivered; twenties by the water felt different than twenties in the mountains.From the entry twenties
  • When he was in his early twenties, he backpacked around Europe to find himself.From the entry find oneself

Meaning of twenty

  1. numeral The cardinal number 20, occurring after nineteen and before twenty-one.
  2. noun The numbers twenty (20) to twenty-nine (29).
  3. noun A banknote with a denomination of 20.

Full definition of twenty

Questions about the plural of twenty

What is the plural of twenty?
The plural of twenty is twenties.
Is twenty countable?
Twenty is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: twenty (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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