acrosome
noun
acrosome is a noun meaning “A structure forming the end of the head of a spermatozoon” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-C-R-O-S-O-M-E, and it appears about once in every 49 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of acrosome is acrosomes.
What does acrosome mean?
noun
- 1
A structure forming the end of the head of a spermatozoon.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of acrosome
- acrosomes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is acrosome?
Acrosome appears about once in every 49 million words in written English, the 217,360th 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).
Acrosome in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense end of the head of a spermatozoon:
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 acrosome come from?
From acro- + -some.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).