how to pronounce sixty

/ˈsɪkstiː/

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sixty is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of sixty in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… in San Francisco PS sixty-nine last …”

meanings of sixty

numeral:

The cardinal number occurring after fifty-nine and before sixty-one, represented in Roman numerals as LX and in Arabic numerals as 60.

sixty frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word sixty occurs in english on average 4.2 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.