six
\ˈsɪks\
The verdict
“six” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #592) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #592
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (radiotéléphonie) Mot de code radiotéléphonique de l'OACI, OTAN et SIA pour le chiffre 6.
Corpus desk
Index FR-six · six · French
six · rank #592 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #592
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH résultats
Nearest frequency peer: résultats (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « six »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- produits
produits
99,412 corpus weight
- rencontre
rencontre
99,411 corpus weight
- résultats
résultats
99,410 corpus weight
- six
six
99,409 corpus weight
- vas
vas
99,408 corpus weight
- aurais
aurais
99,406 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « six » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | six |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈsɪks\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #592 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « six »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for six is neighbouring look-alikes ("st", "su", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ˈsɪks\. Frequency #592 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Gloss: "(radiotéléphonie) Mot de code radiotéléphonique de l'OACI, OTAN et SIA pour le chiffre 6.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for six, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "st", "su", "so", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is six, spelled S-I-X.
Definition
- 1(radiotéléphonie) Mot de code radiotéléphonique de l'OACI, OTAN et SIA pour le chiffre 6.
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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