foveal
/ˈfoʊvɪəl/adjective
foveal is an adjective meaning “Of or pertaining to the fovea” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-V-E-A-L, and it appears about once in every 25 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does foveal mean?
adjective
- 1
Of or pertaining to the fovea.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce foveal?
- UK /ˈfəʊvɪəl/
- US /ˈfoʊvɪəl/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-foveal.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
How common is foveal?
Foveal appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 150,355th 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).
Foveal in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense of or pertaining to the fovea:
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 foveal come from?
Borrowed from Latin foveālis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).