SIXTH
What does "SIXTH" mean?
Coming after fifth in order or position; constituting one of six equal parts.
Meanings
- Next after the fifth in a sequence or ranking. She finished sixth in a field of forty runners.
- One of six equal parts of a whole. Each heir received a sixth of the estate.
- A musical interval spanning six diatonic degrees of the scale. The melody leaps up a major sixth on the second line. technical
Word origin
From Old English 'siexta', from the Proto-Germanic ordinal of 'six' (Old English 'siex'), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European '*sweks'.
Remember it
SIXTH ends in -XTH, one of English's rarest letter clusters - say 'siks-th' and you can feel why kids stumble on it.
A little poem
Five places ahead,
the same finish line, same dusk-
one breath out of sight.
haiku
Wordplay
- Why is 'sixth' so hard to pin down? It always comes after fifth and never gets the credit.
What it teaches
Sixth place is still ahead of everyone who never showed up to run.
Quick facts
What does SIXTH mean?
Coming after fifth in order or position; constituting one of six equal parts.
Is SIXTH a valid word?
Yes — SIXTH is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is SIXTH?
SIXTH has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does SIXTH come from?
From Old English 'siexta', from the Proto-Germanic ordinal of 'six' (Old English 'siex'), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European '*sweks'.
What can SIXTH teach us?
Sixth place is still ahead of everyone who never showed up to run.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.