Definitions for sixteenths

sixteenths six·teenth

Spelling: [siks-teenth]
IPA: /ˈsɪksˈtinθ/

Sixteenths is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 282 anagrams from letters in sixteenths (eehinssttx).

Definitions for sixteenths

noun

  1. a sixteenth part, especially of one (1/16).
  2. the sixteenth member of a series.
  3. Music. sixteenth note.

adjective

  1. next after the fifteenth; being the ordinal number for 16.
  2. being one of 16 equal parts.

Origin of sixteenths

before 900; Middle English sixtenthe (see sixteen, -th2); replacing Middle English sixtenthe, sixtethe, Old English sixtēotha (se

Examples for sixteenths

Two of the battalions, the sixteenth and Tenth, were in the gap by midnight.

What did it cost one traveler to get to America in the sixteenth century?

In the sixteenth century the progress of the art was in the same direction.

Next day was Sunday, as glorious a sixteenth of September as could be desired.

Was Rowe involved in the bombing of the sixteenth Street Baptist Church?

The date of its erection was about the middle of the sixteenth century.

Protecting its most valued informant may well explain why it took decades to bring the sixteenth Street Church bombers to justice.

On the sixteenth he issued forth into life again in a mood that was dangerous.

In all her work until her sixteenth year Vere had consulted her mother.

What was it that wrought this peaceful wonder of the sixteenth century?

Word Value for sixteenths
Scrable

19

Words with friends

19

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