renal
ren·al/ˈɹi.nəl/adjective
renal is an adjective meaning “Pertaining to the kidneys” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-N-A-L and has 2 syllables (ren·al), and it appears 2.8 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does renal mean?
adjective
- 1
Pertaining to the kidneys.
renal transplant
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce renal?
- UK /ˈɹiː.nəl/
- US /ˈɹi.nəl/
Renal has 2 syllables, split ren·al in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-renal.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
How common is renal?
Renal appears 2.8 times per million words in written English, the 16,228th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Renal in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense pertaining to the kidneys:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does renal come from?
Learned borrowing from Late Latin renalis, from Latin rēnēs (“kidneys”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).