meralgia

1. 1.

   pain in the thigh

   Broaderpain

Other forms of meralgia

plural

meralgias·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about meralgia

What does meralgia mean?

meralgia means "pain in the thigh".

How many syllables are in meralgia?

meralgia has 4 syllables: me-ral-gi-a. The stress falls on "ral".

Is meralgia a common word?

meralgia is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.