A sextuplet is one of six babies born at the same time to the same mother. People also say the sextuplets for the whole set of six. The word is built from sextuple (sixfold) + -et, on the same pattern as triplet, quadruplet, and quintuplet. It is a rare, news-style word: most families never need it. In careful talk, one child is a sextuplet; the six together are sextuplets. Students sometimes use sextuplet for the whole group, the way they might say “a twin” when they mean both children. Though actually, musicians also call six notes packed into the time of four a sextuplet — that is another use of the same spelling, about rhythm, not babies. This entry is the birth meaning.

六胞胎之一。六個合稱 the sextuplets。音樂裡另有「六連音」的意思，但這條是指出生。