veintiún

Spanish

Spanish numbers ^(edit)

	21
Cardinal: veintiuno     Apocopated cardinal: veintiún     Ordinal: vigesimoprimero, vigésimo primero     Apocopated ordinal: vigesimoprimer, vigésimo primer     Ordinal abbreviation: 21.º     Fractional: veintiunavo
Spanish Wikipedia article on 21

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /beinˈtjun/ [bẽĩn̪ˈt̪jũn]
• Rhymes: -un
• Syllabification: vein‧tiún

Numeral

veintiún m (apocopate, standard form veintiuno)

1. (before the noun) apocopic form of veintiuno (“twenty-one”)

Further reading

• “veintiún”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025