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Word entry · 3 letters

six

Best crossword clue

"Dice face count, sometimes"

3 letters · collected on this word page

3 lettersPronunciation /sɪks/Part of speech adjective, nounSorted isxStarts with SEnds with X4 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. The number after five and before seven.

Word origin

From Middle English six, from Old English six, from Proto-West Germanic *sehs, from Proto-Germanic *sehs, from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs. Compare West Frisian seis, Dutch zes, Low German söss, sess, German sechs, Norwegian and Danish seks, also Latin sex, Ancient Greek ἕξ (héx), Sanskrit षष् (ṣaṣ). Doublet of sice. Toilet sense predates military usage.

Used in a sentence

  • Gunshots rang out in the capital Abuja and also in the neighboring Niger state as police lobbed tear gas to disperse defiant protesters. In Niger, at least six people are now feared dead, local media reported.
  • how about 100 then? for 100, I wanted to pay homage to the people who have been using seximal this entire time. specifically, I used the word for six sixes found in the Ndom language, "nif".
  • The fives and sixes will have a snack first, then the older kids.

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

Used as a crossword answer4 curated clues

01Dice face count, sometimes3 letters
02Half-dozen3 letters
03Half a dozen3 letters
04Number after five3 letters

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