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He’s been here many times(or many a times)? What's the difference? are both correct and interchangeable?

Swimming_Can9234
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theeggplant42
What the other commenters said, but I'd like to add that you can also say 'many's the time'  which sounds a bit old fashioned and implies nostalgia/reminiscing: 'many's the time we had a laugh at the old watering hole' 'many a time' is also a bit nostalgic and old fashioned. 'many times' is casual and informational and likely to be the usage you're looking for in most scenarios 
Meatloaf265
"many a time" is a much older idiom that means the same thing as "many times". note that time is singular in the expression
Optimal-Ad-7074
either 'many times' for ordinary speech. or if you're being a little bit fancy 'many a time (singular)'. there isn't any 'many a times' in the plural.