caecal
/ˈsiːkəl/adjective
caecal is an adjective meaning “Of or pertaining to the caecum” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-A-E-C-A-L, and it appears about once in every 87 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does caecal mean?
adjective
- 1
Of or pertaining to the caecum.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce caecal?
- /ˈsiːkəl/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-caecal.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of caecal
- cæcal
- cecal
- coecal
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is caecal?
Caecal appears about once in every 87 million words in written English, the 297,763rd 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).
Caecal in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense of or pertaining to caecum:
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.