How do you pronounce sixty?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈsɪksti/.

Where does sixty come from?

It is traced to Middle English.

sixty

/ˈsɪksti/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.93 in modern English

Syllables: six-ty
IPA: /ˈsɪksti/

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Meaning

num

The cardinal number occurring after fifty-nine and before sixty-one, represented in Roman numerals as LX and in Arabic numerals as 60.

noun

A commercial lasting 60 seconds.

Example Sentences

"[…]the remaining three hundred and sixty words were then vetted with a battery of references. Six potential Mountweazels emerged."
"The first sixty argam form the basis for my own sexagesimal use, in the accounting of my business and in the dimensioning of buildings."
"[…] instead of thirties [thirty-second commercials], they buy sixties, which cost twice as much. They spend more on filming it than they need to; they buy a lot of ads that are garbage and don't really say anything, just to fill up the space."

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English sixty, sexty, Old English sixtiġ, from Proto-Germanic *sehs tigiwiz (“sixty”), equivalent to six + -ty. Cognate with Scots sexty, saxty (“sixty”), Saterland Frisian säkstich (“sixty”), West Frisian sechstich (“sixty”), Dutch zestig (“sixty”), German Low German sesstig (“sixty”), German sechzig (“sixty”), Swedish sextio (“sixty”), Norwegian seksti (“sixty”), Icelandic sextíu (“sixty”). Compare also Sanskrit षष्टि (ṣaṣṭi).

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: sixty, sixtiġ, *sehs tigiwiz

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈsɪksti/
British English: /ˈsɪksti/

Inflected Forms

sixties (plural)

Derived Forms

sixtyish sixtyodd sixtysomething

Phrases

like sixty north of sixty screaming sixties shrieking sixties sixty cycle hum sixty-eight sixty-eighth sixty-eleven

Frequently Paired Words

fifty-nine fifty sixty-one seventy sexagesimal thirty

Synonyms

threescore 60 lx