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How to spell sixteen
Sixteen is spelled S-I-X-T-E-E-N.
What it means: The number after fifteen.
In a sentence: There are sixteen apples in the basket.
The part people get wrong
Watch for double e.
Same family: six, sixth, sixteenth, sixty, sixteen-year-old. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.
Where it comes from: “Sixteen” comes from Old English “sixtēne,” literally meaning “six and ten.” Many European languages build teen numbers the same way, combining a smaller number with “ten.”
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