6e
\si.zjɛm\
The verdict
“6e” sits in 2 confusable pairs (corpus #8,184) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #8,184
- frequency rank, French
- 2
- letters
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sixième (ordinal).
Corpus desk
Index FR-6e · 6e · French
6e · rank #8,184 · 0 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,184
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "6" thin
- PHOTO-FINISH étranges
Nearest frequency peer: étranges (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “6e”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- économiste
économiste
91,820 corpus weight
- établis
établis
91,819 corpus weight
- étranges
étranges
91,818 corpus weight
- 6e
6e
91,817 corpus weight
- académique
académique
91,816 corpus weight
- acceptation
acceptation
91,815 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “6e” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | 6e |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \si.zjɛm\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #8,184 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “6e” se place dans la fréquence du français
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for 6e is neighbouring look-alikes ("sixième", "6"), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced \si.zjɛm\. Frequency #8,184. Gloss: "Sixième (ordinal).".
No generated misspelling entries exist for 6e in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "sixième", "6", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is 6e, spelled 6-E.
Definition
- 1Sixième (ordinal).
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- "6e" maps to 2 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "sixième". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #8,184 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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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.