triskelion
/trɑɪˈskɛ.li.ən/noun
triskelion is a noun meaning “A figure composed of three interlocked spirals (or three bent human legs), with threefold rotational symmetry” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-R-I-S-K-E-L-I-O-N, and it appears about once in every 20 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of triskelion is triskelions or triskelia.
What does triskelion mean?
noun
- 1
A figure composed of three interlocked spirals (or three bent human legs), with threefold rotational symmetry.
Coordinate term: tetraskelion
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce triskelion?
- /trɑɪˈskɛ.li.ən/
- /trɪˈskɛ.li.ən/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-triskelion.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-triskelion2.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of triskelion
- triskelions plural
- triskelia plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is triskelion?
Triskelion appears about once in every 20 million words in written English, the 134,976th 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).
Triskelion in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense figure composed of three interlocked spirals, or three bent human legs:
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 triskelion come from?
Borrowed from Ancient Greek τρισκέλιον (triskélion).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).