medullar

adj

"medullar" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“medullar” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
8
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of medullary.

Corpus desk

Index EN-medullar · medullar · English

medullar · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "M" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Key facts for medullar
PropertyValue
Headwordmedullar
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechAdjective
Letters8
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “medullar” in English

medullarsits beyond the 100,000 most-frequent English words, in the long tail of technical, archaic, or otherwise rare vocabulary where spelling doubt tends to strike hardest.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

medullar is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative form of medullary.".

medullar has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle French médullaire and its etymon Latin medullāris. By surface analysis, medulla + -ar. The correct English form is medullar, spelled M-E-D-U-L-L-A-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Alternative form of medullary.

Etymology

From Middle French médullaire and its etymon Latin medullāris. By surface analysis, medulla + -ar.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "medullar"?
"medullar" is spelled M-E-D-U-L-L-A-R.
What does "medullar" mean?
As an adjective, "medullar" means: Alternative form of medullary.
What is the origin of the word "medullar"?
From Middle French médullaire and its etymon Latin medullāris. By surface analysis, medulla + -ar. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list