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palmar

adjective

palmar is spelled P-A-L-M-A-R: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 71,529th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, palmar means “Of or pertaining to the palm of the hand or comparable appendage” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in palmar?

Letters6: P-A-L-M-A-R
In writingabout once in every 6 million words; the 71,529th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is palmar?

Palmar appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 71,529th 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).

Forms of palmar

  • more palmar comparative
  • most palmar superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does palmar mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Of or pertaining to the palm of the hand or comparable appendage.

  2. 2

    In the direction of the palm.

  3. 3

    Of or relating to the underside of the wings of birds.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Palmar in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense of or pertaining to the palm of the hand:

LanguageWords
Germanpalmar, Palmar-, volar, handflächenseitig, hohlhandseitig, Hand-
Portuguesepalmar
Spanishpalmar

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 palmar come from?

Borrowed from Latin palmāris. By surface analysis, palm + ar.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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