sextette
\sɛks.tɛt\
The verdict
“sextette” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit orchestre de six musiciens, particulièrement en jazz.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sextette · sextette · French
sextette · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" 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 | sextette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛks.tɛt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
sextette is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɛks.tɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Petit orchestre de six musiciens, particulièrement en jazz.".
No misspelling variants are generated for sextette in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is sextette, spelled S-E-X-T-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Petit orchestre de six musiciens, particulièrement en jazz.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sextette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En 1981, Joris est engagé dans le BRT Jazz Orkest, dirigé par Etienne Verschueren, et joue dans le sextette de Tony Bauwens.
En 1951, j’enregistrai au ténor et avec un sextette une séance pour le même producteur, Charles Delaunay.
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.