sixties

Other forms of sixties

plural

sixtieses·

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 sixties

What does sixties mean?

sixties means "the decade from 1960 to 1969". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sixties?

sixties has 2 syllables: six-ties. The stress falls on "six". In IPA it is /ˈsɪkstiz/.

What is another word for sixties?

Close synonyms include 1960s, mid-sixties. 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 sixties a common word?

sixties is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.