1️⃣ Number 16th 🍰 One of sixteen 🏃 Person in 16th place

sixteenth

3 1.0

The person or thing in position number sixteen in a list

noun
/sɪkˈtiːnθ/

: decimosexto

I finished sixteenth in the race, just behind my friend who came in fifteenth.

Examples

As of 1988, it ranked sixteenth.

Academic text (1992)
By the sixteenth, the crowd in the center of Beijing swelled to 300,000.

Academic text (2002)
Not until April sixteenth, anyway.

Fiction book (1998)
I need to be at First Contact by the sixteenth.

Fiction book (2001)
The contract dated the sixteenth of April, 1986.

King Lear (1988)
"Robert Kincaid came to me on the sixteenth of August, a Monday, in 1965.

Fiction book (1992)
"If you're not there on the sixteenth, you're not there.

Fiction book (2001)
On November sixteenth, Laurie wrote that she loved being in Allan's arms the night before.

Fiction book (1992)
Can you meet me at the Hotel Himalaya in Kathmandu on the sixteenth?

Fiction book (2001)
China ranks seventh, Brazil eighth, Korea eleventh, India fifteenth, Mexico sixteenth, and Indonesia is 22nd.

Academic text (1999)

Synonyms

16th

vssixteenth

99 1.0

Number sixteen in a list or order

is the spelled-out ordinal word rather than numeric shorthand

Compounds

one-sixteenth

1 3.2

One of sixteen equal parts of a whole

sixteenth note

Specialized

1 5.8

A very short sound in music that lasts one sixteenth of a whole note

sixteenth part

2.7

One of sixteen equal parts of a whole

How Early

first

7 1.0

third

∞ 1.0

tenth

35 1.0

sixteenth

3 1.0

twentieth

6 1.0

Surface Forms

sixteenth singular

sixteenths plural

Morphology

sixteenth = sixteen (transparent) = sixteen + th

Built by adding the ordinal suffix '-th' to 'sixteen' to indicate position in a sequence, which is directly predictable.

Etymology

Sixteenth for a person or thing in order comes from the same parts six + -teenth, meaning 'six plus ten' or 16, so the sixteenth is the one that follows the fifteenth in a list or race.