How to spell sixty

hear itsix·ty/'sɪksti/nounLong vowels

What it means: The number after fifty-nine.

In a sentence: The big birthday cake spelled out "sixty" with pretty candles.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as sixthy or sixtie.

Same family: six, sixth, sixteen, sixty-one, sixty-five. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Sixty” comes from Old English “sixtig,” formed from “six” plus an old suffix meaning “group of ten.” It is part of the same ancient counting system that gives us “twenty,” “thirty,” and “forty.”

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