sixième
\si.zjɛm\
The verdict
“sixième” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,380. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,380
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui concerne l’ordinal correspondant au cardinal six.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sixieme · sixième · French
sixième · rank #4,380 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,380
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH signaler
Nearest frequency peer: signaler (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « sixième »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- secondaires
secondaires
95,624 corpus weight
- serveur
serveur
95,623 corpus weight
- signaler
signaler
95,622 corpus weight
- sixième
sixième
95,621 corpus weight
- suffisant
suffisant
95,620 corpus weight
- survie
survie
95,619 corpus weight
What this shows « sixième » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | sixième |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \si.zjɛm\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #4,380 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sixième »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around sixième (IPA \si.zjɛm\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #4,380 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for sixième, with forms such as "isxième", "siixème", and "sixieme". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "sexisme", "seizième", "6e", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is sixième, spelled S-I-X-I-È-M-E.
Definition
- 1Qui concerne l’ordinal correspondant au cardinal six.
- 2Qui concerne la fraction d’une unité divisée en 6 parties.
- 3Avec cinq autres.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sixième appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Parti sixième sur la grille, dimanche, le Français a abandonné dès le troisième virage, à la suite d’un violent accrochage avec l’Espagnol Marc Marquez.
Vincent Demarconnay (161 matchs de L2), qui va entamer sa sixième saison de rang en deuxième division avec le Paris FC, se verrait bien, lui, sauter dans le grand bain, à 39 ans.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- isxième
- siixème
- sixieme
- siximèe
- sixièem
- sixièmme
- sixxième
- sixèime
- ssixième
- sxiième
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sixième - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sixième", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).