Word.ws English Dictionary

sexagon

Syllables: sex·a·gonUK/ˈsɛk.sə.ɡən/US/ˈsɛk.sə.ɡɑn/

sexagon noun: synonym of hexagon (“a polygon with six sides and six angles”).

Noun

sexagon (plural sexagons)

  1. Synonym of hexagon (“a polygon with six sides and six angles”).
    • They might have taken a narrower line of conduct; they might have squeezed out a greater extent of country, and what would have been the end? To build pentagons, sexagons and quintagons — to shew an incessant and provoking spirit of jealousy and bad neighbourhood […]1794, Jordan's Parliamentary Journal (page 157)
    Synonyms:
    hexagon

Synonyms of sexagon

Forms of sexagon

pluralsexagons

Origin of sexagon

From sexa- + -gon. Piecewise doublet of hexagon.

Questions about sexagon

What does sexagon mean?
Sexagon means synonym of hexagon (“a polygon with six sides and six angles”).
What part of speech is sexagon?
Sexagon is a noun.
How do you pronounce sexagon?
Sexagon is pronounced /ˈsɛk.sə.ɡən/ (UK).
What is the plural of sexagon?
The plural of sexagon is sexagons.

Words near sexagon in the dictionary

  1. sexagesimo-quarto
  2. sexagesimo-quartos
  3. sexagesm
  4. sexagesms
  5. sexagintillion
  6. sexagon
  7. sexagonal
  8. sexagons
  9. sexahedron
  10. sexahedrons
  11. sexaholic

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sexagon (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Typheuss-sexagon.wav.

Cite this entry: “sexagon.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/sexagon. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.