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sechs

German, number

sechs is spelled S-E-C-H-S (5 letters) and appears 135 times per million words in written German, the 657th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sechs is a German number meaning “six (numerical value represented by the Arabic numeral 6; or describing a set with six elements)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Sechs is a different word: “six”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “sechs, die Zahl zwischen fünf und sieben”.

What does sechs mean in English?

number

  1. 1

    six (numerical value represented by the Arabic numeral 6; or describing a set with six elements)

noun

as Sechs
  1. 1

    femininesix

  2. 2

    feminineA failing grade in a class or course at school. The grades range from 1 (best) to 6 (worst).

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

number: 1. sechs, die Zahl zwischen fünf und sieben 2. „sechs Uhr“ oder „achtzehn Uhr“

noun: 1. die natürliche Zahl zwischen der Fünf und der Sieben 2. die Ziffer Sechs (6, ٦, 六, 陸) 3. „ungenügend“, die schlechteste Schulnote 4. die höchste Augenzahl auf einem Würfel

The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.

Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of sechs

  • Sechsen plural
  • sechse variant archaic
  • [1] arabische Ziffer: 6 symbol
  • VI symbol
  • die sechs Dinge nominative definite
  • sechs Dinge nominative indefinite
  • der sechs Dinge genitive definite
  • sechser Dinge genitive indefinite
  • den sechs Dingen dative definite
  • sechs Dingen dative indefinite
  • meine sechs Dinge nominative possessive pronoun
  • sechs meiner Dinge nominative possessive pronoun
  • meiner sechs Dinge genitive possessive pronoun
  • sechser meiner Dinge genitive possessive pronoun
  • meinen sechs Dingen dative possessive pronoun
  • sechsen meiner Dinge dative possessive pronoun
  • die sechs nominative
  • [4] ⚅ symbol

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to sechs

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is sechs in German?

sechs appears 135 times per million words in written German.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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