triptych
/ˈtɹɪp.tɪk/noun
triptych is spelled T-R-I-P-T-Y-C-H. The wrong spelling people search most is tryptich: about 120 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 18 of all searches for the word. Triptych is a noun meaning “A picture or series of pictures painted on three tablets connected by hinges”. The plural of triptych is triptychs.
How many letters and syllables are in triptych?
| Letters | 8: T-R-I-P-T-Y-C-H |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 3 million words; the 51,129th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, tryptich, about 120 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Sounds like |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell triptych?
Triptych is spelled T-R-I-P-T-Y-C-H. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 18 of the searches for triptych in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is triptych?
Triptych appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 51,129th 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 triptych?
- /ˈtɹɪp.tɪk/
Triptych has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-triptych.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with triptych
Sounds like: trip tic, tryptic (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Forms of triptych
- triptychs plural
- triptich
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does triptych mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A picture or series of pictures painted on three tablets connected by hinges.
- 2
A group of three people or works, especially when considered representative of a particular field or theme.
- 3
A film or video sequence intended to be shown on a triple screen with the use of linked projectors.
- 4
A set of three se-tenant postage stamps that form a composite picture.
- 5
Any set of three closely connected ideas or objects.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Triptych in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense art: a picture or series of pictures painted on three tablets connected by hinge:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | triptyque |
| German | Triptychon |
| Portuguese | tríptico |
| Spanish | tríptico |
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 triptych come from?
From Ancient Greek τρίπτυχος (tríptukhos, “consisting of three layers, threefold”), from τρι- (tri-) + πτυχή (ptukhḗ, “a fold”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).