années 60
\a.ne swa.sɑ̃t\
The verdict
“années 60” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Décennie couvrant les années 1960 à 1969.
Corpus desk
Index FR-annees-60 · années 60 · French
années 60 · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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 | années 60 |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ne swa.sɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « années 60 » en français
Rare enough to double-check
années 60 is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.ne swa.sɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Décennie couvrant les années 1960 à 1969.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for années 60, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is années 60, spelled A-N-N-É-E-S- -6-0.
Definition
- 1Décennie couvrant les années 1960 à 1969.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how années 60 appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Son grand-père, Jules-Fernand Paniandy, s’était lui aussi rendu tristement célèbre dans les années 60 pour des viols en série, ainsi que pour de multiples cambriolages. Il est mort dans une prison en métropole.
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.