ulnar
adjective
ulnar is an adjective meaning “Of or pertaining to the ulna, or the elbow” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled U-L-N-A-R, and it appears about once in every 4 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does ulnar mean?
adjective
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Of or pertaining to the ulna, or the elbow
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is ulnar?
Ulnar appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 60,074th 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).
Ulnar in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense pertaining to ulna or elbow:
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 ulnar come from?
From uln- + ar.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).