sixty-eleven
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.71 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Regardless of the fact there are some "sixty-eleven" other creams on the market, this new cream out of the West is getting what appears to be a permanent and prominent place on the dealers' shelves through national advertising."
- "Samyn yer, viz. ane M Vᶜ sexte lewn yeris the xxii. day of Februar, there com eftyr nown ane gret storym and snaw and hayll and wind that na man nor best micht tak up ther heddis nor gang nor ryd, and mony bestis war parcist furth in the storm, and mony men and vemen war parisht in syndry partis..."
- "In the epilogue to the printed volume of the Recuyell, Caxton explicitly states that his work was "begun in Bruges, continued in Ghent, and finished in Cologne in the time of the troublous world, and of the great divisions being and reigning as well in the realms of England and France as in all other places universally through the world, that is to wit, the year one thousand four hundred and seventy-one," or sixty-eleven as he sometimes prefers to call it."
- "For numbers seventy-one to seventy-nine, it proceeds as soixante-onze (sixty-eleven), soixante-douze (sixty-twelve), up to soixante-dix-neuf (sixty-nineteen)."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: soixante-onze
Usage
Inflected Forms
sixty-leven (alternative)
sixty-'leven (alternative)