sixièmes
\si.zjɛm\
The verdict
“sixièmes” is uncommon French (frequency #52,346 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,346
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de sixième.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sixiemes · sixièmes · French
sixièmes · rank #52,346 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,346
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH smog
Nearest frequency peer: smog (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « sixièmes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- serpentine
serpentine
47,659 corpus weight
- serpillière
serpillière
47,658 corpus weight
- sixièmes
sixièmes
47,655 corpus weight
- smog
smog
47,654 corpus weight
- soignait
soignait
47,652 corpus weight
- soles
soles
47,651 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sixièmes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sixièmes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.zjɛm\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #52,346 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sixièmes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sixièmes is uncommon French at frequency #52,346 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \si.zjɛm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de sixième.".
Zero misspellings are on record for sixièmes in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is sixièmes, spelled S-I-X-I-È-M-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de sixième.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sixièmes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est une possibilité que les stades soient vides, mais pas une crainte, car on a l’habitude, lâche Arnaud Assoumani, spécialiste de la longueur et du triple saut, qui vient de se qualifier pour ses sixièmes Jeux paralympiques.
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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