duodecimal

Other forms of duodecimal

plural

duodecimals·

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 duodecimal

What does duodecimal mean?

duodecimal means "one part in twelve equal parts". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in duodecimal?

duodecimal has 5 syllables: du-o-de-ci-mal. The stress falls on "de".

What is another word for duodecimal?

Close synonyms include one-twelfth, twelfth, twelfth part. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is duodecimal a common word?

duodecimal is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.