sixteenth

Other forms of sixteenth

plural

sixteenths·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about sixteenth

What does sixteenth mean?

sixteenth means "position 16 in a countable series of things". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sixteenth?

sixteenth has 2 syllables: six-teenth. The stress falls on "teenth". In IPA it is /sɪkˈstinθ/.

What is another word for sixteenth?

Close synonyms include one-sixteenth, sixteenth part, 16th. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sixteenth a common word?

sixteenth is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.