six
[sɪks]
The verdict
“six” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #14,932) as a numeral. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14,932
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sechs
Corpus desk
Index DE-six · six · German
six · rank #14,932 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,932
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH sinnvoller
Nearest frequency peer: sinnvoller (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „six“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- silberne
silberne
85,072 corpus weight
- Silvia
Silvia
85,071 corpus weight
- sinnvoller
sinnvoller
85,070 corpus weight
- six
six
85,069 corpus weight
- sommers
sommers
85,068 corpus weight
- sozialdemok…
sozialdemokratische
85,067 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „six“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | six |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Numeral |
| IPA | [sɪks] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #14,932 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „six“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for six is neighbouring look-alikes ("so", "SV", …), not just typos; it is anumeral pronounced [sɪks]. Frequency #14,932 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Gloss: "sechs".
No misspelling variants are generated for six in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "so", "SV", "SS", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is six, spelled S-I-X.
Definition
- 1sechs
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how six appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
They arrived at six o'clock.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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