serratus
noun
serratus is a noun meaning “Any of several muscles of the vertebral or costal region that produce a serrated border” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-E-R-R-A-T-U-S, and it appears about once in every 13 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of serratus is serrati.
What does serratus mean?
noun
- 1
Any of several muscles of the vertebral or costal region that produce a serrated border.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of serratus
- serrati plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is serratus?
Serratus appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 110,368th 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).
Serratus in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense muscle:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Sägemuskel |
| Spanish | (músculo) serrato |
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 serratus come from?
Borrowed from Latin serratus.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).