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spinal

German, adjective/ʃpiˈnaːl/

spinal is spelled S-P-I-N-A-L (6 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written German, the 94,067th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Spinal is a German adjective meaning “spinal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “die Wirbelsäule, das Rückenmark betreffend”.

What does spinal mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    spinal

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. die Wirbelsäule, das Rückenmark betreffend

The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.

Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of spinal

  • spinaler masculine nominative singular
  • spinale feminine nominative singular
  • spinales neuter nominative singular
  • spinalen genitive masculine singular
  • spinalem dative masculine singular
  • der spinale definite includes-article masculine
  • die spinale definite feminine includes-article
  • das spinale definite includes-article neuter
  • die spinalen definite includes-article nominative
  • des spinalen definite genitive includes-article
  • der spinalen definite feminine genitive
  • dem spinalen dative definite includes-article
  • den spinalen dative definite includes-article

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce spinal?

  • /ʃpiˈnaːl/
  • /spiˈnaːl/
  • [ʃpiˈnaːl]

Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to spinal

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is spinal in German?

spinal appears about once in every 4 million words in written German.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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