sixième sens

/\si.zjɛm sɑ̃s\/ noun

Letters

12 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

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sixième sens is aFrenchnoun. It means: Sens d’intuition humaine que l’on ne peut pas expliquer avec les cinq sens traditionnels. Pronounced \si.zjɛm sɑ̃s\.

Key facts for sixième sens
PropertyValue
Headwordsixième sens
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\si.zjɛm sɑ̃s\
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

sixième sens is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for sixième sens is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \si.zjɛm sɑ̃s\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Sens d’intuition humaine que l’on ne peut pas expliquer avec les cinq sens traditionnels.".

No misspelling variants are generated for sixième sens in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is sixième sens, spelled S-I-X-I-È-M-E- -S-E-N-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Sens d’intuition humaine que l’on ne peut pas expliquer avec les cinq sens traditionnels.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sixième sens"?
"sixième sens" is spelled S-I-X-I-È-M-E- -S-E-N-S. The IPA pronunciation is \si.zjɛm sɑ̃s\.
What does "sixième sens" mean?
As a noun, "sixième sens" means: Sens d’intuition humaine que l’on ne peut pas expliquer avec les cinq sens traditionnels.
How do you pronounce "sixième sens"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sixième sens" is \si.zjɛm sɑ̃s\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sixième sens" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.