trapezium

Other forms of trapezium

plural

trapezia

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 trapezium

What does trapezium mean?

trapezium means "a quadrilateral with no parallel sides". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in trapezium?

trapezium has 4 syllables: tra-pe-zi-um. The stress falls on "pe".

What is another word for trapezium?

Close synonyms include trapezium bone, os trapezium. 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.

What is the opposite of trapezium?

The recorded antonyms are parallelogram.

Is trapezium a common word?

trapezium 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.