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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

parallelohedron

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
par-al-lelo-he-dron
IPA
21
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A polyhedron that can tessellate three-dimensional spaces with face-to-face contacts via translations.

Etymology

parallel + -o- + -hedron

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

parallelohedrons (plural) parallelohedra (plural)

Derived Forms

heptaparallelohedron

Questions

What does parallelohedron mean?
A polyhedron that can tessellate three-dimensional spaces with face-to-face contacts via translations.
Where does parallelohedron come from?
parallel + -o- + -hedron

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