rhabdoid
adjective, noun
rhabdoid is an adjective meaning “Shaped like a rod” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-H-A-B-D-O-I-D, and it appears about once in every 55 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does rhabdoid mean?
adjective
- 1
Shaped like a rod.
noun
- 1
A spindle-shaped body chemically related to the plastids, found in the cells of certain plants.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of rhabdoid
- rhabdoids plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is rhabdoid?
Rhabdoid appears about once in every 55 million words in written English, the 231,291st 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).
Where does rhabdoid come from?
From rhabdo- + -oid.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).