trapezoidal

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   resembling a trapezoid

Questions about trapezoidal

What does trapezoidal mean?

trapezoidal means "resembling a trapezoid".

How many syllables are in trapezoidal?

trapezoidal has 4 syllables and divides as tra-pe-zoi-dal 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 trapezoidal a common word?

trapezoidal 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.