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frontoparietal

adjective, noun

frontoparietal is an adjective meaning “Frontal and parietal (relating to such bones or lobes)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-R-O-N-T-O-P-A-R-I-E-T-A-L, and it appears about once in every 54 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does frontoparietal mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Frontal and parietal (relating to such bones or lobes).

noun

  1. 1

    The frontal bone and parietal bone considered as a unit.

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

Forms of frontoparietal

  • frontoparietals plural

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

How common is frontoparietal?

Frontoparietal appears about once in every 54 million words in written English, the 228,409th 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).

Where does frontoparietal come from?

From fronto- + parietal.

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