Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sext

/sɛkst/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.30 in modern English

Syllables: sext
IPA: /sɛkst/

11

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Noon, reckoned as the sixth hour of daylight.

noun

The service appointed for this hour.

noun

A sixth: an interval of six diatonic degrees.

noun

An organ stop of two ranks of pipes an interval of a sixth apart.

Obsolete

noun

An electronic message, especially one sent by cell phone, involving sexual language or images.

verb

To send a sext.

Intransitive verb; Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"Embarrassed by a ‘Sext’ Message"
"Rebecca Loos claimed she was 'sexted' by Beckham"
"[…] trying to get into the swing of things by texting my husband (I was a little tipsy, I will admit): "How do you sext someone?" hoping to engage in the latest trend. All I got was, "What!" in reply."
"The next day, Greg sexted me a few pictures of his package."
"We would talk on the phone for hours and then text and sext the rest of the day."
"Sexting sonnets / Under the tables"

Etymology

From Latin sexta (“sixth; sixth hour”). Doublet of siesta.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: sexta

Usage

Inflected Forms

sexts (plural) sexts (present, singular) sexting (participle, present) sexted (participle, past) sexted (past)

Derived Forms

sextee sexter sextual sextually

Synonyms

midday noontide 12 o'clock 12 noon 12 p.m. high noon meridian meridiem nones noon noonday noontime

Homonyms

sexed

Rhymes With

next what next text church text plain text perplexed vexed flexed sexed hexed cleartext exed

Questions

How do you pronounce sext?: The recorded pronunciation is /sɛkst/.
What does sext mean?: Noon, reckoned as the sixth hour of daylight.
Where does sext come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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