hexagon
/ˈhɛk.sə.ɡɑn/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.84 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Meronyms: angle, side; see also Thesaurus:polygon"
- "The project was a huge, queen-size quilt made up of 100 hexagon pieces – 50 of them embroidered with a design for every US state and 50 stars. […] Once the designs are all stitched and the hexagons are returned to Downey, they will be assembled into the completed quilt."
- "If we just plopped down a dot for every observation we’d end up with an undifferentiated black blob, so the weathergami technique visualizes frequency of temperature pairs: we divide the chart area into a fine hexagonal grid, and then color each hexagon according to how many daily observations fall within it."
Etymology
From Latin hexagōnum, from Ancient Greek ἑξάγωνον (hexágōnon). By surface analysis, hexa- + -gon. Piecewise doublet of sexagon.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: hexagōnum, ἑξάγωνον
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈhɛk.sə.ɡɑn/
- British English: /ˈhɛk.sə.ɡən/