threeside

noun

"threeside" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“threeside” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
9
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any object or shape consisting of three sides; triangle.

Corpus desk

Index EN-threeside · threeside · English

threeside · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "T" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Key facts for threeside
PropertyValue
Headwordthreeside
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “threeside” in English

threesidesits beyond the 100,000 most-frequent English words, in the long tail of technical, archaic, or otherwise rare vocabulary where spelling doubt tends to strike hardest.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

threeside is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Any object or shape consisting of three sides; triangle.".

threeside has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

Etymologically, the entry records: From three + side. The correct English form is threeside, spelled T-H-R-E-E-S-I-D-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Any object or shape consisting of three sides; triangle.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how threeside appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. [...] let this base-point be indicated by Ax, while the sixth base-point will be indicated by C. Now [c*] contains a threeside formed by a, [...]
  2. Pappus tells us that Menelaus in his Sphaertca calls the figure in question (the spherical triangle) a 'threeside' [...]

Etymology

From three + side.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "threeside"?
"threeside" is spelled T-H-R-E-E-S-I-D-E.
What does "threeside" mean?
As a noun, "threeside" means: Any object or shape consisting of three sides; triangle.
What is the origin of the word "threeside"?
From three + side. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list