conoid
adjective, noun
conoid is spelled C-O-N-O-I-D: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 51 million words in written English, the 222,788th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, conoid means “Shaped like a cone; conical” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in conoid?
| Letters | 6: C-O-N-O-I-D |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 51 million words; the 222,788th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is conoid?
Conoid appears about once in every 51 million words in written English, the 222,788th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce conoid?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-conoid.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of conoid
- more conoid comparative
- most conoid superlative
- conoids plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does conoid mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Shaped like a cone; conical.
noun
- 1
Anything shaped like a cone.
- 2
A Catalan surface all of whose rulings intersect some fixed line
- 3
A solid formed by the revolution of a conic section about its axis
A parabolic conoid is a paraboloid; an elliptic conoid is an ellipsoid.
- 4
The pineal gland
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Conoid in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense geometry, solid:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Afterkegel, Konoid |
| Spanish | conoide |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does conoid come from?
From cone + -oid.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).