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honeycombed

adjective, verb

honeycombed is spelled H-O-N-E-Y-C-O-M-B-E-D: 11 letters. It appears about once in every 18 million words in written English, the 128,787th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, honeycombed means “Having a perforated structure, resembling a honeycomb” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in honeycombed?

Letters11: H-O-N-E-Y-C-O-M-B-E-D
In writingabout once in every 18 million words; the 128,787th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone 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 honeycombed?

Honeycombed appears about once in every 18 million words in written English, the 128,787th 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).

Forms of honeycombed

  • more honeycombed comparative
  • most honeycombed superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does honeycombed mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Having a perforated structure, resembling a honeycomb.

verb

  1. 1

    simple past and past participle of honeycomb (a form of honeycomb)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Honeycombed in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense having a perforated structure, resembling a honeycomb:

LanguageWords
Frenchalvéolé
Portuguesealveolado

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.

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