dodecahedron

1. 1.

   any polyhedron having twelve plane faces

   Broaderpolyhedron

Other forms of dodecahedron

plural

dodecahedrons·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about dodecahedron

What does dodecahedron mean?

dodecahedron means "any polyhedron having twelve plane faces".

How many syllables are in dodecahedron?

dodecahedron has 5 syllables and divides as do-de-ca-he-dron under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.