inguinal

1. 1.

   of or relating to or near the groin

Questions about inguinal

What does inguinal mean?

inguinal means "of or relating to or near the groin".

How many syllables are in inguinal?

inguinal has 4 syllables and divides as in-gu-i-nal under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is inguinal a common word?

inguinal is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.