sixteen

• Symbolic: 16
• Roman: XVI

From Middle English sextene, sixtene, from Old English siextīene, sixtēne, sixtyne, from Proto-Germanic *sehstehun. Cognate with West Frisian sechstjin, Dutch zestien, German sechzehn, Danish seksten.

• (next word stressed near the first syllable)

  (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪks.tiːn/

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• (next word stressed after the first syllable)

  (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˌsɪksˈtiːn/

• Rhymes: -iːn

sixteen

1. The cardinal number occurring after fifteen and before seventeen, represented in Arabic numerals as 16 and in Roman numerals as XVI.
   • 1912, Zane Grey, Riders of the Purple Sage, Chapter 8

     Venters began to count them—one—two—three—four—on up to sixteen.

• Ordinal: sixteenth

• Last: fifteen. Next: seventeen

• exteins, extines

sixteen

1. Alternative form of sixtene