How to spell sixty

Sixty is spelled S-I-X-T-Y.

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.

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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