sixty

Other forms of sixty

plural

sixties·

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 sixty

What does sixty mean?

sixty means "the cardinal number that is the product of ten and six". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sixty?

sixty has 2 syllables: six-ty. The stress falls on "six". In IPA it is /ˈsɪksti/.

What is another word for sixty?

Close synonyms include 60, LX, 60, lx, threescore. 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 sixty a common word?

sixty 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.