Which to use
“6e” and “sixième” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #8,184
- “6e” frequency rank
- #4,380
- “sixième” frequency rank
- 12564
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | 6e | sixième |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Sixième (ordinal). | Qui concerne l’ordinal correspondant au cardinal six. |
Same sound, different letters: 6e vs sixième
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 1 letter.
Homophone desk: 6e vs sixième
This is the hard kind. 6e and sixième are pronounced identically (\si.zjɛm\) and both work as anadjective. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 5 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 12564, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
6e is recorded at frequency rank #8,184, classified as anadj, pronounced \si.zjɛm\. sixième is at rank #4,380, tagged as anadj, pronounced \si.zjɛm\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 12564, this pair ranks #404,718 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of 6e vs sixième
Shared letters: e. Private to "6e": -. Private to "sixième": imsxè.
"6e" · 1 letters · shape V · "sixième" · 7 letters · shape CVCVVCV
Frequently Asked Questions
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Useful next steps
"6e" and "sixième" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "6e" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "sixième" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #404,718 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "6e" and "sixième" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "seizième vs sixième". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #404,718 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.