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iliopsoas

il·i·o·pso·as/ˌɪl.i.oʊˈsoʊ.əs/noun

iliopsoas is spelled I-L-I-O-P-S-O-A-S, 5 syllables: il·i·o·pso·as. The wrong spelling people search most is ileopsoas: about 40 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 96 of all searches for the word. Iliopsoas is a noun meaning “A compound muscle composed of the iliac and psoas muscles”. The plural of iliopsoas is iliopsoases or iliopsoai.

How many letters and syllables are in iliopsoas?

Letters9: I-L-I-O-P-S-O-A-S
Syllables5: il·i·o·pso·as
In writingabout once in every 50 million words; the 220,118th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, ileopsoas, about 40 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 iliopsoas?

Iliopsoas is spelled I-L-I-O-P-S-O-A-S. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 96 of the searches for iliopsoas in either form.

iliopsoasthe right spelling3,810 searches a month
ileopsoase in place of i40 searches a month

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 iliopsoas?

Iliopsoas appears about once in every 50 million words in written English, the 220,118th 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 iliopsoas?

  • US /ˌɪl.i.oʊˈsoʊ.əs/

Iliopsoas has 5 syllables, split il·i·o·pso·as in writing.

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

What rhymes with iliopsoas?

2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as iliopsoas from its last stressed vowel (/oʊəs/):

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 iliopsoas

  • iliopsoases plural
  • iliopsoai plural

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

What does iliopsoas mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A compound muscle composed of the iliac and psoas muscles.

    Look at those iliopsoases working!

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

Where does iliopsoas come from?

From ilio- + psoas.

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

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