Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sixty-eleven

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.71 in modern English

Syllables
six-ty-eleven
IPA
24
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Very many; too many to count; quite a lot.

American usage; Informal

adj

Synonym of seventy-one.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

Etymology

Originally as a calque of French soixante-onze, soixante et onze, &c. In American dialects, from humorous use of eleven to continue counting the sixties.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: soixante-onze

Usage

Inflected Forms

sixty-leven (alternative) sixty-'leven (alternative)

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Questions

What does sixty-eleven mean?
Very many; too many to count; quite a lot.
Where does sixty-eleven come from?
It is traced to French.

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