rhombohedral
adjective
rhombohedral is an adjective meaning “Having three equal axes and oblique angles” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-H-O-M-B-O-H-E-D-R-A-L, and it appears about once in every 32 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does rhombohedral mean?
adjective
- 1
Having three equal axes and oblique angles.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce rhombohedral?
- UK
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Tesco250-rhombohedral.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
How common is rhombohedral?
Rhombohedral appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 171,907th 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).
Rhombohedral in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense having three equal axes and oblique angles:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | rhomboédrique |
| German | rhomboedrisch |
| Spanish | romboédrico |
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 rhombohedral come from?
From rhombo- + -hedral.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).