Fourteen - forty

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This is an irregular English spelling.

The name of the number 4 is four. 14 follows the same spelling, fourteen. 40, on the other hand, drops the ‘-u-’: forty. 4th is fourth, 14th is fourteenth, but 40th is fortieth.

There is no such word in modern English as fourty.

See also for - four.