7 letters · 14 points in Scrabble
noun the cardinal number that is the sum of fifteen and one
adjective being one more than fifteen
originInherited 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.
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