sixty
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, sixty sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1xysti
- One letter away
- 3sixth, silty
What it means
- adjectivebeing ten more than fifty
- nounthe cardinal number that is the product of ten and six
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s ih1 k s t iy0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
Nothing in the pronouncing dictionary rhymes with it.
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: xysti.
One letter away
- sixth
- silty
- sixte
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 words this long are a neighbour.
Lists it belongs to
Tier: everyday. The tiers come from the English Speller Database and rank by list size, not by how often a word is used — see where the words come from.