infraspinatus
noun
infraspinatus is a noun meaning “A thick triangular muscle whose main function is to rotate the arm externally and stabilize the shoulder joint” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled I-N-F-R-A-S-P-I-N-A-T-U-S, and it appears about once in every 60 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of infraspinatus is infraspinati.
What does infraspinatus mean?
noun
- 1
A thick triangular muscle whose main function is to rotate the arm externally and stabilize the shoulder joint.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of infraspinatus
- infraspinati plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is infraspinatus?
Infraspinatus appears about once in every 60 million words in written English, the 243,301st 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).
Infraspinatus in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense muscle:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | infraespinoso |
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.