8-cell
/ˈeɪtˌsɛl/
"8-cell" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“8-cell” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A four-dimensional polytope, analogous to a cube, whose eight bounding facets are cubes; a tesseract.
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Index EN-8-cell · 8-cell · English
8-cell · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "8" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | 8-cell |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈeɪtˌsɛl/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “8-cell” in English
Rare enough to double-check
8-cell is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈeɪtˌsɛl/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A four-dimensional polytope, analogous to a cube, whose eight bounding facets are cubes; a tesseract.".
No misspelling variants are generated for 8-cell in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From 8 + cell. The correct English form is 8-cell, spelled 8---C-E-L-L.
Definition
- 1A four-dimensional polytope, analogous to a cube, whose eight bounding facets are cubes; a tesseract.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how 8-cell appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
According to this table the tetrahedron corresponds to the 5-cell, the cube to the 8-cell ("hypercube"), the octahedron to the 16-cell, the dodecahedron to the 120-cell and the icosahedron to the 600-cell. The 24-cell is an additional body in four-dimensional space which is dual to itself.
Similarly in dimension eight there is the quaternionic projective plane which we can think of as a 4-sphere with an 8-cell attached, and in dimension sixteen there is a Cayley projective plane which has similar properties.
Etymology
From 8 + cell.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.