sechzehn
German, number
sechzehn is spelled S-E-C-H-Z-E-H-N (8 letters) and appears 2.3 times per million words in written German, the 21,569th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sechzehn is a German number meaning “sixteen” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Sechzehn is a different word: “sixteen (number)”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “die Kardinalzahl zwischen fünfzehn und siebzehn; sechzehn, zwei hoch vier (2⁴)”.
What does sechzehn mean in English?
number
- 1
sixteen
noun
- 1
femininesixteen (number)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
number: 1. die Kardinalzahl zwischen fünfzehn und siebzehn; sechzehn, zwei hoch vier (2⁴) 2. kurz für „sechzehn Jahre (alt)“
noun: 1. die natürliche Zahl zwischen der Fünfzehn und der Siebzehn
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 sechzehn
- sechszehn alternative obsolete
- Sechzehnen plural
- [1] Arabische Ziffern für sechzehn: 16 abbreviation
- [1] Römische Ziffern für sechzehn: XVI abbreviation
- [1] Hexadezimale Schreibweise: 10₁₆ abbreviation
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to sechzehn
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sechzehn in German?
sechzehn appears 2.3 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).