geniculate
/d͡ʒəˈnɪk.jəˌleɪt/adjective
geniculate is spelled G-E-N-I-C-U-L-A-T-E. The wrong spelling people search most is genticulate: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Geniculate is an adjective meaning “Bent abruptly, with the structure of a knee”.
How many letters and syllables are in geniculate?
| Letters | 10: G-E-N-I-C-U-L-A-T-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 20 million words; the 136,649th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, genticulate, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell geniculate?
Geniculate is spelled G-E-N-I-C-U-L-A-T-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for geniculate in either form.
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.
How common is geniculate?
Geniculate appears about once in every 20 million words in written English, the 136,649th 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 pronounce geniculate?
- UK /dʒɪˈnɪk.jʊ.leɪt/
- US /d͡ʒəˈnɪk.jəˌleɪt/
Geniculate has 4 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-geniculate.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-geniculate2.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with geniculate?
3 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as geniculate from its last stressed vowel (/ɪkjəleɪt/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of geniculate
- geniculates present, singular, he/she/it
- geniculating participle, present
- geniculated participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does geniculate mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Bent abruptly, with the structure of a knee.
a geniculate stem; a geniculate ganglion; a geniculate twin crystal
- 2
Having kneelike joints; able to bend at an abrupt angle.
- 3
Relating to a geniculate nucleus.
verb
- 1
obsoleterareTo form joints or knots on.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Geniculate in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense bent abruptly:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | geniculado |
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 geniculate come from?
Learned borrowing from Latin geniculātus (“with bended knee”), from geniculum (“little knee”) + -ātus (participial adjective-forming suffix), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).