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antecubital

adjective

antecubital is spelled A-N-T-E-C-U-B-I-T-A-L. The wrong spelling people search most is anticubital: about 170 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 14 of all searches for the word. Antecubital is an adjective meaning “Pertaining to, or situated in the anterior or inner part of the elbow (cubitus)”.

How do you spell antecubital?

Antecubital is spelled A-N-T-E-C-U-B-I-T-A-L. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 14 of the searches for antecubital in either form.

antecubitalthe right spelling2,210 searches a month
anticubitali in place of e170 searches a month

Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.

What does antecubital mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Pertaining to, or situated in the anterior or inner part of the elbow (cubitus)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is antecubital?

Antecubital appears about once in every 78 million words in written English, the 279,513th 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).

How do you abbreviate antecubital?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of antecubital: a/c.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Antecubital in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense pertaining to or situated in the anterior part of the elbow:

LanguageWords
Portugueseantecubital

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 antecubital come from?

From ante- + cubital.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).