Ninetieth

Definitions: Ninetieth

Ninetieth

Adjective

1. The ordinal number of ninety in counting order.

Noun

1. Position 90 in a countable series of things.

Date "ninetieth" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references)

Synonym: Ninetieth

Synonym: 90th (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Ninetieth

English words defined with "ninetieth": Nonagesimal. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Aspects of E. M. Forster: essays and recollections written for his ninetieth birthday, 1st January 1969 (reference) Bilingual education : hearings before the Special Subcommittee on Bilingual Education of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, United States Senate, Ninetieth Congress, first session, on S. 428 (reference) Race and Other Misadventures: Essays in Honor of Ashley Montagu in His Ninetieth Year (reference) The Ninetieth Aero Squadron, American Expeditionary Forces : a history of its activities during the World War, from its formation to its return to the United States (reference) (more book examples)
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Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	He had passed his ninetieth year, walked erect, spoke in a loud voice, saw clearly, drank hard, ate, slept, and snored.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Ninetieth" is generally used as an ordinal number -- approximately 80.56% of the time. "Ninetieth" is used about 36 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Ordinal Number	80.56%	29	64,444
Noun (proper)	19.44%	7	133,076
Total	100.00%	36	N/A

Expression using "ninetieth": the ninetieth. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "ninetieth": Three-ninetieth.
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Language		Translations for "ninetieth"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		nëntëdhjeti, nëntëdhjetë (ninety), i nëntëdhjetë. (various references)

Bulgarian		деветдесети. (various references)

Chinese		第九十 . (various references)

Czech		devadesátý. (various references)

Farsi		نودمین درجه یامرتبه , نودمین . (various references)

Finnish		yhdeksäskymmenes. (various references)

French		quatre-vingt-dixième. (various references)

German		neunzigste. (various references)

Greek		ενενηκοστόσ (nineteenth). (various references)

Hungarian		kilencvenedik. (various references)

Italian		novantesimo. (various references)

Manx		jeihoo as kiare feed. (various references)

Pig Latin		inetiethnay

Portuguese		nonagésimo, décimo nono. (various references)

Romanian		nouãzecime, nouãzecelea parte dintr-un întreg, nouãzecelea. (various references)

Russian		девяностый. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		devedesetina, devedeseti. (various references)

Spanish		nonagésimo. (various references)

Swedish		nittionde. (various references)

Thai		ลำ�"ับเก้าสิบ, ซึ่งเป็นลำ�"ับที่เก้าสิบ. (various references)

Turkish		doksanda bir kısım, doksanda bir, doksanıncı. (various references)

Ukranian		одна дев'яноста, дев'яносте число, дев'яностий. (various references)

Vietnamese		vật thứ chín mươi, thứ chín mươi, một phần chín mươi người thứ chín mươi. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "ninetieth": ninetieths. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Ninetieth" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: nineteeth, ninetyish. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "ninetieth" (pronounced nī"ntēuth)
5	-n t ē u th	seventieth, twentieth.
4	-t ē u th	eightieth, fiftieth, fortieth, sixtieth, thirtieth.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-h-i-i-n-n-t-t"
	-3 letters: heinie, intent, intine, tentie, theine.
	-4 letters: ninth, teeth, tenet, tenth, thein, thine, tithe.
	-5 letters: hent, hint, inti, nene, nett, nine, nite, teen, tent, teth, thee, then, thin, tine, tint, titi.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-h-i-i-n-n-t-t"
	+1 letter: ninetieths.
	+2 letters: interethnic.
	+3 letters: retightening.
	+4 letters: anesthetizing, kittenishness.
	+5 letters: extinguishment, overtightening.
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