sexto
\sɛk.sto\
The verdict
“sexto” is uncommon French (frequency #88,089 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,089
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sixièmement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sexto · sexto · French
sexto · rank #88,089 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,089
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH senter
Nearest frequency peer: senter (-2 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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « sexto »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sene
sene
11,915 corpus weight
- senter
senter
11,914 corpus weight
- sexto
sexto
11,912 corpus weight
- Shams
Shams
11,910 corpus weight
- Shaquille
Shaquille
11,909 corpus weight
- shari
shari
11,908 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sexto » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sexto |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \sɛk.sto\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #88,089 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sexto » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sexto is uncommon French at frequency #88,089 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed \sɛk.sto\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sixièmement.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sexto, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is sexto, spelled S-E-X-T-O.
Definition
- 1Sixièmement.
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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