six
/sɪks/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.29 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
num
A numerical value equal to 6; the number following five and preceding seven. This number of dots: (••••••).
noun
A playing card featuring six pips.
noun
noun
An event whereby a batsman hits a ball which does not bounce before passing over a boundary in the air, resulting in an award of 6 runs for the batting team.
Example Sentences
- "Gunshots rang out in the capital Abuja and also in the neighboring Niger state as police lobbed tear gas to disperse defiant protesters. In Niger, at least six people are now feared dead, local media reported."
- "how about 100 then? for 100, I wanted to pay homage to the people who have been using seximal this entire time. specifically, I used the word for six sixes found in the Ndom language, "nif"."
- "The fives and sixes will have a snack first, then the older kids."
- "In Austria the prisoners rise at five, [...]. There are morning prayers at a quarter to six, after which the prisoners are conducted to work."
- "cover my six"
- "Just as having an enemy on your “six” is the hardest situation to escape, being on an enemy at six o'clock is the surest kill. Fighter pilots are always practicing maneuvers to get out from having another aircraft on their six."
Etymology
PIE word *swéḱs From Middle English six, from Old English six, from Proto-West Germanic *sehs, from Proto-Germanic *sehs, from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs. Compare West Frisian seis, Dutch zes, Low German söss, sess, German sechs, Norwegian and Danish seks, also Latin sex, Ancient Greek ἕξ (héx), Sanskrit षष् (ṣaṣ). Doublet of sice. Toilet sense predates military usage.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: six, *sehs, *swéḱs