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The name of my toes

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00:00 The Name Of My Toes
00:22 Accepted Answer Score 8
00:51 Answer 2 Score 6
01:08 Answer 3 Score 9
01:28 Answer 4 Score 2
01:38 Thank you

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ANSWER 1

Score 9


Looking on Ngrams, the names that are most used appear to be:

Big toe,
Second toe,
Third toe (or middle toe),
Fourth toe,
Little toe (or fifth toe).

I have left "big toe" out of the Ngram, because it dominates everything else.




ACCEPTED ANSWER

Score 8


The toes are, from medial to lateral:

  • Hallux ("big toe" or "great toe"), the innermost (most proximal) toe and the closest to the toes of the other foot
  • Second toe or "long toe" (although commonly shorter than the big toe)
  • Third toe, occasionally described as the "ring toe"
  • Fourth toe, sometimes described as the "ring toe"
  • Fifth toe ("little toe", "pinky toe", or "baby toe"), the outermost (most distal) toe



ANSWER 3

Score 6


To continue your naming terminology (which are the common names anyway):

  • Big toe
  • Index toe
  • Middle toe
  • Ring toe
  • Pinky toe



ANSWER 4

Score 2


There are medical technical terms for each of the toes, but in common parlance, only two toes have names, the big toe and the pinky toe (the smallest one).