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Wordplay · Ages 18+

Riddle #193

What is the only number from one to a hundred whose letters, spelled out in English, appear in strict alphabetical order?

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Answer: Forty

F-O-R-T-Y: F, O, R, T, Y fall in strictly ascending alphabetical order — no other spelled-out number does.

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