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frontotemporal

/ˌfɹʌntəʊˈtɛmpəɹəl/adjective

frontotemporal is an adjective meaning “Of or pertaining to the frontal and temporal bones or lobes” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-R-O-N-T-O-T-E-M-P-O-R-A-L, and it appears about once in every 13 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does frontotemporal mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Of or pertaining to the frontal and temporal bones or lobes

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

How do you pronounce frontotemporal?

  • /ˌfɹʌntəʊˈtɛmpəɹəl/

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

How common is frontotemporal?

Frontotemporal appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 110,368th 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).

Frontotemporal in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense Translations:

LanguageWords
Spanishfrontotemporal

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 frontotemporal come from?

From fronto- + temporal.

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