sixties
\siks.tiz\
The verdict
“sixties” is uncommon French (frequency #51,134 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,134
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Décennie des années 1960.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sixties · sixties · French
sixties · rank #51,134 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,134
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH signor
Nearest frequency peer: signor (-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 « sixties »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- shun
shun
48,870 corpus weight
- sidéral
sidéral
48,869 corpus weight
- signor
signor
48,868 corpus weight
- sixties
sixties
48,867 corpus weight
- skinhead
skinhead
48,866 corpus weight
- SNSM
SNSM
48,864 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sixties » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sixties |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \siks.tiz\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #51,134 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sixties » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sixties is uncommon French at frequency #51,134 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \siks.tiz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Décennie des années 1960.".
Zero misspellings are on record for sixties in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is sixties, spelled S-I-X-T-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1Décennie des années 1960.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sixties appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les sixties battaient leur plein. Les gens, euphoriques dans leurs petits appartements, commençaient à peine à vivre et à voir le monde d’une autre manière dans l’ère du baby boom et du plein emploi.
Gagner du fric, par n’importe quel moyen, et très vite, était l’horizon d’une génération qui voulait tirer un trait sur les sixties.
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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