sixties
[sikstiz]
The verdict
“sixties” is uncommon German (frequency #97,706 among 107,600 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,706
- frequency rank, German
- 107,600
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Sechzigerjahre des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts, Sechziger
| 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) |
Where “sixties” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
sixties is uncommon German at frequency #97,706 among 107,600 “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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Using “sixties”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is S-I-X-T-I-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.