ilium
French, noun\i.ljɔm\
ilium is spelled I-L-I-U-M (5 letters) and appears about once in every 19 million words in written French, the 142,934th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ilium is a French masculine noun meaning “ilium” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Un des trois os qui forment les os du bassin, os coxal ou os iliaques”.
What does ilium mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineilium
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Un des trois os qui forment les os du bassin, os coxal ou os iliaques.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of ilium
- iliums plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ilium?
- \i.ljɔm\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is ilium in French?
ilium appears about once in every 19 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).