polyhedral
"polyhedral" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“polyhedral” is uncommon English (frequency #82,677 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,677
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of, pertaining to or derived from a polyhedron.
Corpus desk
Index EN-polyhedral · polyhedral · English
polyhedral · rank #82,677 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,677
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH poling
Nearest frequency peer: poling (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “polyhedral”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
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pillory
17,331 corpus weight
- plage
plage
17,329 corpus weight
- poinsettia
poinsettia
17,327 corpus weight
- poling
poling
17,325 corpus weight
- polyhedral
polyhedral
17,324 corpus weight
- pottinger
pottinger
17,318 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “polyhedral” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | polyhedral |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #82,677 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “polyhedral” in English
Rare enough to double-check
polyhedral is uncommon English at frequency #82,677 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for polyhedral in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From poly- + -hedral. The correct English form is polyhedral, spelled P-O-L-Y-H-E-D-R-A-L.
Definition
- 1Of, pertaining to or derived from a polyhedron.
- 2Having multiple planar faces or facets.
- 3Having multiple dihedral angles along the wingspan.
Etymology
From poly- + -hedral.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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