sexennium
/sɛkˈsɛniəm/noun
sexennium is spelled S-E-X-E-N-N-I-U-M: 9 letters. As a noun, sexennium means “A period of six years” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of sexennium is sexenniums or sexennia.
How many letters and syllables are in sexennium?
| Letters | 9: S-E-X-E-N-N-I-U-M |
|---|---|
| In writing | too rare for the frequency list |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you pronounce sexennium?
- US /sɛkˈsɛniəm/
- UK /sɛkˈsɛnɪəm/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What rhymes with sexennium?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as sexennium from its last stressed vowel (/ɛniəm/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of sexennium
- sexenniums plural
- sexennia plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does sexennium mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A period of six years.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does sexennium come from?
From Latin sexennium, from sexennis (“6-year”) + -ium (suffix forming abstract nouns).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).