No matter how many commands you have in the English language, we often make little mistakes or get confused in the spelling of some words. In hurry we don’t pay attention to the spelling but these little spelling mistakes are noticed by the readers promptly. Sometimes, it also happens that we get confused between the correct and incorrect spelling of a particular word; this mostly occurs with the selling of the number 50.

There is a huge controversy with the spelling of 50; whether it is “fivety” or “fifty”. Some people say that the correct spelling is fivety while others say that we spell the number 50 as fifty.

So if you also have confusion regarding this problem, you must read the full article to clear your doubt.

Fivety or Fifty – How do you spell 50 ?

The number 50 exists between the numbers 49 and 51. We get the number 50 on adding number 1 in the number 49 (49+1=50) and on subtracting the number 1 from the number 51 (51-1=50).

“Fivety” is the misspelling of “Fifty”. A small tip to remember the spelling of the number 50 is to pronounce and then write or you can first write “fif” and then add “ty” to it.

The English language sometimes doesn’t follow any rules. According to it the words five, fifteen, and fifty are correct but Fivety is incorrect.

Can I use the word Fivety?

Earlier, Fivety was said as correct but now standard English considers it incorrect. So basically, Fivety is not correct in any case. You don’t need to get confused with the spelling of 50, the correct spelling is fifty only.

Fivety or Fifty – Some examples of how to spell 50?

• My Father’s age is fifty nine but he is still very active.
• My grandmother often says that the fifties were the golden period of her life.
• He died at half of his age i.e., fifty two.

Some points to remember

In geometry, we never write the numbers in words, for example, we can not write fifty-degree. It is wrong, it should be written as 50degree.

Between “Fivety and fifty ” fifty is correct but between “Ninety and Ninty” the spelling Ninety is correct, so it is not compulsory that the spelling will get changed in the same manner.

For withdrawing the money through cheque we should spell 50 as fifty not fivety

The final words

The correct spelling of 50 is fifty, not fifty. Do remember the tip to write “fif” then add  “ty” in it.