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trapezohedron

noun

trapezohedron is spelled T-R-A-P-E-Z-O-H-E-D-R-O-N: 13 letters. It appears about once in every 74 million words in written English, the 272,462nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, trapezohedron means “Any of a class of polyhedra that have kite-shaped faces and are dual polyhedra of antiprisms” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of trapezohedron is trapezohedra or trapezohedrons.

How many letters and syllables are in trapezohedron?

Letters13: T-R-A-P-E-Z-O-H-E-D-R-O-N
In writingabout once in every 74 million words; the 272,462nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is trapezohedron?

Trapezohedron appears about once in every 74 million words in written English, the 272,462nd 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 trapezohedron?

  • US

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-trapezohedron.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of trapezohedron

  • trapezohedra plural
  • trapezohedrons plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does trapezohedron mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Any of a class of polyhedra that have kite-shaped faces and are dual polyhedra of antiprisms.

  2. 2

    A deltoidal icositetrahedron.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Trapezohedron in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
GermanTrapezoeder (polyhedron whose faces are kites)
Frenchantidiamant (any of several forms of crystal with trapezia…)

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 trapezohedron come from?

From trapezium + -hedron, with trapezium used in the US sense of a convex irregular quadrilateral.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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