equiangular
adjective
equiangular is an adjective meaning “Of a polygon, having all interior angles equal. This is not necessarily a regular polygon, since that would also be equilateral; a rectangle is…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled E-Q-U-I-A-N-G-U-L-A-R and has 5 syllables, and it appears about once in every 60 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does equiangular mean?
adjective
- 1
Of a polygon, having all interior angles equal. This is not necessarily a regular polygon, since that would also be equilateral; a rectangle is equiangular but not equilateral, unless it is a square.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce equiangular?
- US
Equiangular has 5 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-equiangular.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of equiangular
- equangular
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is equiangular?
Equiangular appears about once in every 60 million words in written English, the 243,301st 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).
Equiangular in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense geometry: having all internal angles equal:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | équiangle |
| German | gleichwinklig |
| Portuguese | equiângulo |
| Spanish | equiángulo |
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 equiangular come from?
From equi- + angular.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).