luteal
adjective
luteal is an adjective meaning “Of or pertaining to the corpus luteum” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled L-U-T-E-A-L, and it appears about once in every 11 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does luteal mean?
adjective
- 1
Of or pertaining to the corpus luteum.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is luteal?
Luteal appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 100,430th 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).
Luteal in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense of the corpus luteum:
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 luteal come from?
From luteum + -al.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).