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hexapla

/ˈhɛksəplə/noun

hexapla is spelled H-E-X-A-P-L-A: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 81 million words in written English, the 286,585th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, hexapla means “A text presented in six parallel versions, especially (historical) the version of the Old Testament presented in such a fashion by Origen” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of hexapla is hexaplas.

How many letters and syllables are in hexapla?

Letters7: H-E-X-A-P-L-A
In writingabout once in every 81 million words; the 286,585th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is hexapla?

Hexapla appears about once in every 81 million words in written English, the 286,585th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce hexapla?

  • US /ˈhɛksəplə/
  • UK /ˈhɛksəplə/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of hexapla

  • hexaplas plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does hexapla mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A text presented in six parallel versions, especially (historical) the version of the Old Testament presented in such a fashion by Origen.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does hexapla come from?

From Ancient Greek ἑξαπλᾶ (hexaplâ), neuter plural of ἑξαπλοῦς (hexaploûs, “sixfold”), from ἑξα- (hexa-, “hexa-: six”) + -πλόος (-plóos, “-fold”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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