sixties
[sikstiz]
The verdict
“sixties” is uncommon German (frequency #97,706 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,706
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sechzigerjahre des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts, Sechziger
Corpus desk
Index DE-sixties · sixties · German
sixties · rank #97,706 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,706
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Skeletten
Nearest frequency peer: Skeletten (+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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „sixties“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Silvaner
Silvaner
2,298 corpus weight
- Sitzreihe
Sitzreihe
2,297 corpus weight
- sixties
sixties
2,295 corpus weight
- Skeletten
Skeletten
2,294 corpus weight
- Skeptikern
Skeptikern
2,293 corpus weight
- Skythen
Skythen
2,292 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „sixties“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sixties |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [sikstiz] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #97,706 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „sixties“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
sixties is uncommon German at frequency #97,706 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [sikstiz]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sechzigerjahre des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts, Sechziger".
Zero misspellings are on record for sixties in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is sixties, spelled S-I-X-T-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1Sechzigerjahre des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts, Sechziger
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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