six hundred
/ˈsɪks ˈhʌn.dɹəd/
"six-hundred" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“six hundred” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a numeral. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The cardinal number occurring after five hundred ninety-nine and before six hundred one, represented in Arabic numerals as 600.
Corpus desk
Index EN-six-hundred · six hundred · English
six hundred · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | six hundred |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Numeral |
| IPA | /ˈsɪks ˈhʌn.dɹəd/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “six hundred” in English
Rare enough to double-check
six hundred is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anumeral, transcribed /ˈsɪks ˈhʌn.dɹəd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The cardinal number occurring after five hundred ninety-nine and before six hundred one, represented in Arabic numerals as 600.".
Zero misspellings are on record for six hundred in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is six hundred, spelled S-I-X- -H-U-N-D-R-E-D.
Definition
- 1The cardinal number occurring after five hundred ninety-nine and before six hundred one, represented in Arabic numerals as 600.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.