trellis
/ˈtɹɛlɪs/noun, verb
trellis is spelled T-R-E-L-L-I-S. The wrong spelling people search most is trelice: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 455 of all searches for the word. Trellis is a noun meaning “An outdoor garden frame that can be used for partitioning a common area”. The plural of trellis is trellises.
How many letters and syllables are in trellis?
| Letters | 7: T-R-E-L-L-I-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 3 million words; the 47,633rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, trelice, about 30 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell trellis?
Trellis is spelled T-R-E-L-L-I-S. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 462 of the searches for trellis in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is trellis?
Trellis appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 47,633rd 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 trellis?
- /ˈtɹɛlɪs/
Trellis has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-trellis.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with trellis?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as trellis.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: stiller.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of trellis
- trellises plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- trellising participle, present
- trellised participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does trellis mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An outdoor garden frame that can be used for partitioning a common area.
- 2
An outdoor garden frame that can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants.
- 3
A kind of graph, used in communication theory and encryption, whose nodes are ordered into vertical slices by time, with each node at each time connected to at least one node at an earlier and at least one node at a later time.
verb
- 1
To train or arrange (plants) so that they grow against a trellis.
to trellis vines
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Trellis in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | treillage , espalier, treille |
| German | Gatter, Schmuckgitter, Ziergitter , Klettergerüst, Rankgerüst, Spalier |
| Spanish | enrejado, verja, rejado, encañado, encañizada , espaldar |
| Portuguese | treliça |
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 trellis come from?
From Middle English trelis, from Anglo-Norman treslis, from Old French treille (“arbor”), from Latin trichila (“arbor", "summer house”). However, see OED which claims another Old French form referring to sackcloth, from Vulgar Latin.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).