ten

1. 1.

   being one more than nine

   Synonyms10x

   Similarcardinal

Other forms of ten

plural

tens·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ten

What does ten mean?

ten means "the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ten?

ten has 1 syllable: ten. In IPA it is /ˈtɛn/.

What is another word for ten?

Close synonyms include 10, X, tenner, decade, ten-spot. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ten a common word?

ten is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.