popliteal
/pɒˈplɪtɪ.əl/adjective
popliteal is an adjective meaning “Of or pertaining to the popliteus (the area behind the knee)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-O-P-L-I-T-E-A-L, and it appears about once in every 14 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does popliteal mean?
adjective
- 1
Of or pertaining to the popliteus (the area behind the knee).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce popliteal?
- UK /pɒˈplɪtɪ.əl/
- UK /ˌpɒplɪˈtiːəl/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-popliteal.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
How common is popliteal?
Popliteal appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 113,022nd 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).
Popliteal in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense area behind the knee:
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 popliteal come from?
From Late Latin popliteus (from Latin poples (“ham, knee”)) + -al.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).