octahedral
adjective
octahedral is spelled O-C-T-A-H-E-D-R-A-L. The wrong spelling people search most is octohedral: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 17 of all searches for the word. Octahedral is an adjective meaning “Of, relating to, or having the shape of an octahedron”.
How many letters and syllables are in octahedral?
| Letters | 10: O-C-T-A-H-E-D-R-A-L |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 5 million words; the 69,055th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, octohedral, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell octahedral?
Octahedral is spelled O-C-T-A-H-E-D-R-A-L. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 17 of the searches for octahedral in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is octahedral?
Octahedral appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 69,055th 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 octahedral?
Octahedral has 4 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).
Forms of octahedral
- octahedric
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does octahedral mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Of, relating to, or having the shape of an octahedron.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Octahedral in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense having eight plane surfaces:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | octaédrique |
| German | oktahedral |
| Spanish | octaédrico |
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 octahedral come from?
From octa- + -hedral.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).