olecranon
/oʊˈlɛkɹəˌnɑn/noun
olecranon is spelled O-L-E-C-R-A-N-O-N. The wrong spelling people search most is olecronon: about 40 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 81 of all searches for the word. Olecranon is a noun meaning “The bony process at the top of the ulna forming the point of the elbow”. The plural of olecranon is olecranons or olecrana.
How many letters and syllables are in olecranon?
| Letters | 9: O-L-E-C-R-A-N-O-N |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 28 million words; the 159,707th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, olecronon, about 40 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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).
How do you spell olecranon?
Olecranon is spelled O-L-E-C-R-A-N-O-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 81 of the searches for olecranon 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 olecranon?
Olecranon appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 159,707th 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 olecranon?
- US /oʊˈlɛkɹəˌnɑn/
- UK /əˈlɛkɹənən/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Neøn-olecranon.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of olecranon
- olecranons plural
- olecrana plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does olecranon mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The bony process at the top of the ulna forming the point of the elbow.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Olecranon in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense bony process:
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 olecranon come from?
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὠλέκρανον (ōlékranon).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).