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Hect- is a combining form used like a prefix meaning “hundred.” It is very occasionally used in technical terms, especially in measurements.

Hect- comes from Greek ���첹��ó��, meaning “hundred,” which is distantly related both to English hundred and Latin centum, “hundred.” Find out more at our entries for cent and hundred.

What are variants of hect-?

Hect- is a variant of hecto-, which loses its -o- when combined with words or word elements beginning with vowels. Want to know more? Read our 51�Թ�s That Use hecto- article.

In some rare instances, hecto- and hect- are spelled with a -k-, becoming hekto- and hekt-.

One example of a technical term that features the combining form hect- is hectare, “a unit of surface, or land, measure equal to 100 ares, or 10,000 square meters.” Hectare comes from the French hectare, which uses the equivalent of the form hect-.

The hect- portion of the word means “hundred,” while the -are portion of the word is “a measure of surface area equal to 100 square meters,” from Latin �����. Hectare literally translates to “a hundred ares.”

What are some words that use the combining form hect-?

• hectad

What are some other forms that hect- may be commonly confused with?

• helic-
• hept-
• hex-
• -sect

Not every word that begins with the letters hect-, such as hectic, is necessarily using the combining form hect- to mean “hundred.” Learn why hectic means “busy” at our entry for the word.

The suffix -ad indicates a group or unit that includes a certain number. Based on the meaning of hect-, what is a hectad?