Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

enneadecahedron

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: en-nead-ec-a-he-dron
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

6

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A polyhedron with nineteen faces.

Example Sentences

"Guy [24] and Knowlton have independently discovered a uniform unistable enneadecahedron."
"Klamkin noted that [1] contains an improved solution by R.K. Guy to the polyhedron problem, consisting of a doubly truncated 17-sided convex prism, making it an enneadecahedron (19 faces). […] Ogilvy referred to his book [4], where he describes Guy's enneadecahedron."
"Our solid is a 17-sided prism, half of whose section is illustrated in Fig. 5, truncated obliquely as in the side view of Fig. 6, so it is an enneadecahedron."

Etymology

From enneadeca- + -hedron.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: enneadeca
Suffix: hedron

Inflected Forms

enneadecahedra (plural) enneadecahedrons (plural)

Questions

What does enneadecahedron mean?: A polyhedron with nineteen faces.
Where does enneadecahedron come from?: From enneadeca- + -hedron.

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