peroneal

1. 1.

   of or relating to the fibula or the outer part of the leg below the knee

Questions about peroneal

What does peroneal mean?

peroneal means "of or relating to the fibula or the outer part of the leg below the knee".

How many syllables are in peroneal?

peroneal has 4 syllables and divides as pe-ro-ne-al 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 peroneal a common word?

peroneal 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.