sixths
SIKSTHS/sɪksθs/
- 1Plural of sixth.
The recipe says to add the flour in sixths to keep the batter smooth.
Five sixths of the votes went to the winning candidate.
Note
The plural carries two of the singular's noun meanings at once: equal parts of a whole, as in five sixths of the votes, and musical intervals, so a melody can move in major and minor sixths. The same spelling is also the present-tense form of the rare, nonstandard verb meaning 'to divide by six.' That verb is unusual enough that a reader meeting the word in ordinary prose can safely assume the noun.
sixths is a form of sixth
sixth, noun: The person or thing occupying the sixth position in a sequence or ranked order. Full entry
- Forms
- sixthsixths plural
- Spelling
- sixth → sixths: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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