twenty-six

American  

[twen-tee-siks, twuhn-] / ˈtwɛn tiˈsɪks, ˈtwʌn- /

noun

1. a cardinal number, 20 plus 6.

2. a symbol for this number, as 26 or XXVI.

3. a set of this many persons or things.

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adjective

1. amounting to 26 in number.

Example Sentences

“The Bedford Park Fire Department, along with multiple Fire Department agencies from surrounding jurisdictions, transported twenty-six patients to area hospitals for treatment,” police said in a news release.

From Washington Times

“I need twenty-six more outfits for her!” he said.

From Washington Post

“Yes, identities behind those payments were obscured by pseudonymous addresses, long strings of between twenty-six and thirty-five characters,” Greenberg writes.

From Washington Post

And Last: God knows regular quipping’s not very challenging, but making you use eXactly twenty-six words, each one having a different first letter, is just plain zany.

From Washington Post

It has since become labeled as the “Magna Carta of the internet” and “the twenty-six words that created the internet.”

From Los Angeles Times