glabella
/ɡləˈbɛlə/noun
glabella is a noun meaning “The space between the eyebrows and above the nose” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled G-L-A-B-E-L-L-A, and it appears about once in every 13 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of glabella is glabellas or glabellae.
What does glabella mean?
noun
- 1
The space between the eyebrows and above the nose.
- 2
The axial protuberance on the cephalon of certain arthropods (especially trilobites).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce glabella?
- US /ɡləˈbɛlə/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Yangolin-glabella.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of glabella
- glabellas plural
- glabellae plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is glabella?
Glabella appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 107,757th 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).
Glabella in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense anatomy: space:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | glabelle |
| German | Glabella |
| Portuguese | glabela, intercílio, mesófrio |
| Spanish | entrecejo, glabela |
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 glabella come from?
From Latin glaber (“smooth, hairless, bald”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).