sixteen
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 14
- Words With Friends
- 15
- Letters
- 7
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Definition of sixteen
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
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The cardinal number occurring after fifteen and before seventeen, represented in Arabic numerals as 16 and in Roman numerals as XVI.
“Venters began to count them—one—two—three—four—on up to sixteen.”
“They'd spent one evening together sixteen months ago, and Falk was acutely aware that he'd probably airbrushed and edited at least some of it without meaning to.”
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Etymology
Inherited from Middle English sextene, sixtene, from Old English sixtīene, from Proto-Germanic *sehstehun. Cognate with West Frisian sechstjin, Dutch zestien, German sechzehn, Danish seksten. Equivalent to six + -teen.
Anagrams of sixteen
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