eleven

One past ten

Eleven is the number after ten, written 11.

It's the first number that English doesn't construct from smaller parts—unlike thirteen (three + ten) or twenty-one.

In sports, eleven often names a team's starting lineup, especially in soccer and cricket: the starting eleven.

Eleven o'clock marks late morning or late night.

The adjective eleventh indicates position in sequence: the eleventh hour means the last possible moment.

age

tween

Youth approaching thirteen

allowance · sleepover · youth · innocence · playdate · elementary

soccer

squad

Small working group

striker · defender · goalkeeper · lineup · substitution · manager · kickoff · match · side · XI

number

prime

Readying for action

  • oddUnusual or not even
  • integerNumber lacking fractions
  • digitSingle numeric character

numeral · cardinal · ordinal · counting · arithmetic · sequence · mathematics · figure · tally · numeric

time

mid-morning

Late part of morning

  • brunchMorning-afternoon meal hybrid
  • clockDevice displaying time
  • hourSixty-minute span

chime · strike

numerology

intuition

Instinctive immediate understanding

synchronicity · vibration · destiny · illumination · visionary · cosmic · manifestation · gateway · portal · duality

cultural

volume

Amount of space filled

Netflix · heist · armistice

Categories
Opposites
numerical proximity to twelve

eleventwelve

One more than eleven

dozen · baker's dozen · thirteen

numerical magnitude

elevenzero

Numerical absence of quantity

none · one · infinity · nothing · million

oddness vs. evenness

eleventen

Base of decimals

twelve · eight · fourteen · even numbers

Phrases
Family

eleventh, eleventh-hour, elevens, elevenses, elevenths, elevenish, elevenfold, elevensies, eleven o'clock

Familiarity
Top 2,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G