Ninety-Ninty | Commonly Confused Words

Ninety

/ˈnaɪnti/

A number that comes after eighty-nine and before ninety-one.

We should be there in about ninety minutes.The temperature was in the nineties.Perhaps the machine was at eighty – ninety.

A misspelling of the number that is equivalent to nine tens, commonly spelled 'ninety'.

Ninety has an e after the n, just like nine.
Think of ninety as the same as nine with a ty at the end.
Ninty is not a correct spelling and should be avoided.
The word ninety is derived from the word nine which has an e.
Remember: Ninety contains the word nine within it, ensuring the correct spelling.