meningeal
/ˌmɛn.ənˈd͡ʒi.əl/adjective
meningeal is spelled M-E-N-I-N-G-E-A-L. The wrong spelling people search most is meningial: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Meningeal is an adjective meaning “Relating to the meninges”.
How many letters and syllables are in meningeal?
| Letters | 9: M-E-N-I-N-G-E-A-L |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 12 million words; the 105,204th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, meningial, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
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 meningeal?
Meningeal is spelled M-E-N-I-N-G-E-A-L. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for meningeal in either form.
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 meningeal?
Meningeal appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 105,204th 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 meningeal?
- UK /mɪˈnɪn.d͡ʒi.əl/
- US /ˌmɛn.ənˈd͡ʒi.əl/
Meningeal has 4 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-meningeal.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with meningeal?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as meningeal from its last stressed vowel (/iəl/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: enameling.
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).
What does meningeal mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Relating to the meninges.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Meningeal in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense relating to the meninges:
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 meningeal come from?
From New Latin mēningeus + -al, from mēninga (“membrane covering the brain”) + -eus (adjectival suffix), equivalent to meninx (meninge) + -al.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).