how to pronounce eighteen

/ɛɪˈtiːn/

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eighteen is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of eighteen in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… she's saving eighteen hundred sixty …”

meanings of eighteen

numeral:

The cardinal number occurring after seventeen and before nineteen, represented in Roman numerals as XVIII and in Arabic numerals as 18.

name:

A surname.

eighteen frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word eighteen occurs in english on average 5.7 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.