# sixth vs sixty

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### sixth
*adjective · IPA /sɪksθ/ · frequency rank #3,785*
The ordinal form of the number six.

### sixty
*num · IPA /ˈsɪksti/ · frequency rank #7,978*
The cardinal number occurring after fifty-nine and before sixty-one, represented in Roman numerals as LX and in Arabic numerals as 60.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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