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triplication

noun

triplication is spelled T-R-I-P-L-I-C-A-T-I-O-N: 12 letters. It appears about once in every 95 million words in written English, the 313,259th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, triplication means “The action or result of triplicating” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of triplication is triplications.

How many letters and syllables are in triplication?

Letters12: T-R-I-P-L-I-C-A-T-I-O-N
In writingabout once in every 95 million words; the 313,259th 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 triplication?

Triplication appears about once in every 95 million words in written English, the 313,259th 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).

Forms of triplication

  • triplications plural

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

What does triplication mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The action or result of triplicating.

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

Triplication in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense action or result of triplicating:

LanguageWords
Frenchtriplicacion
GermanVerdreifachung

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does triplication come from?

From triplicate + -ion.

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

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