three vs threefold

three

noun
  • Anything measuring three units, as length. 

  • Three o'clock, either a.m. or p.m. 

  • A person who is three years old. 

  • The playing card featuring three pips. 

  • The digit/figure 3. 

num
  • A numerical value after two and before four. Represented in Arabic digits as 3; this many dots (•••). 

  • Describing a set or group with three elements. 

threefold

noun
  • An algebraic variety of dimension 3. 

adv
  • by a factor of three 

verb
  • To make threefold; to triple. 

adj
  • triple 

  • three times as great 

How often have the words three and threefold occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )