How to say "eleven" in Japanese

• イレブンCommon
  nounA loanword from English; for the plain number it is seldom the word you want — its established use is for a team's eleven players, the 'starting eleven', especially in soccer.
• 十一じゅういちCommon
  numeralThe number word for eleven, also read as the numeral 11; use it for counting, arithmetic, ages, dates and times — whenever you simply mean the number, this is the word.
  私達わたしたちは全部ぜんぶで十一じゅういち名めいです。↗

  We are eleven in all.

Use 十一 for the number eleven itself in counting, arithmetic, dates and times; 「イレブン」 is a loanword whose established use is a team's eleven players, especially in soccer, and it is marginal for plain numbers.

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• イレブンeleven
• 十一じゅういちeleven