sextuor
\sɛk.stɥɔʁ\
The verdict
“sextuor” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Morceau de musique pour six voix ou pour six instruments.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sextuor · sextuor · French
sextuor · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 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 | sextuor |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛk.stɥɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
sextuor is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɛk.stɥɔʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Morceau de musique pour six voix ou pour six instruments.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sextuor, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is sextuor, spelled S-E-X-T-U-O-R.
Definition
- 1Morceau de musique pour six voix ou pour six instruments.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sextuor appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ainsi, le Concert op. 21 de Chausson (1892) est un sextuor à cordes avec piano, tandis que le sextuor de Schoenberg La Nuit transfigurée (1899) ne comporte que des cordes recréant de manière très expressive le climat intimiste du poème de Richard Dehmel qui lui sert de prétexte.
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.