octaèdre
\ɔk.ta.ɛdʁ\
The verdict
“octaèdre” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Corps solide à huit faces.
Corpus desk
Index FR-octaedre · octaèdre · French
octaèdre · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "O" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | octaèdre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔk.ta.ɛdʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
octaèdre is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔk.ta.ɛdʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for octaèdre in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is octaèdre, spelled O-C-T-A-È-D-R-E.
Definition
- 1Corps solide à huit faces.
- 2Octaèdre régulier, dont les faces font huit triangles équilatéraux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how octaèdre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’acide oxalique concentré donne, avec les liqueurs contenant du strontium, à chaud des cristaux monocliniques ; à froid des octaèdres mêlés de tables pseudo-rectangulaires, à extinctions monocliniques.
Quand il est régulier (ses faces et les angles qui les séparent sont alors identiques), on parle de solide platonicien. Il existe cinq solides platoniciens distincts, le tétraèdre, le cube, l’octaèdre, le dodécaèdre et l’icosaèdre qui comportent respectivement 4, 6, 8, 12 et 20 côtés.
This word in other languages
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.