tessellate

Questions about tessellate

What does tessellate mean?

tessellate means "fit together exactly, of identical shapes". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tessellate?

tessellate has 3 syllables and divides as tes-sel-late 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 tessellate a common word?

tessellate 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.