nine-sided

1. 1.

   having nine sides

   Similarmultilateral

Questions about nine-sided

What does nine-sided mean?

nine-sided means "having nine sides".

How many syllables are in nine-sided?

nine-sided has 4 syllables and divides as ni-ne--si-ded 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.

Is nine-sided a common word?

nine-sided 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.