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aglycone

noun

aglycone is spelled A-G-L-Y-C-O-N-E: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 44 million words in written English, the 204,233rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, aglycone means “The non-sugar fragment of a glycoside” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of aglycone is aglycones.

How many letters and syllables are in aglycone?

Letters8: A-G-L-Y-C-O-N-E
In writingabout once in every 44 million words; the 204,233rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is aglycone?

Aglycone appears about once in every 44 million words in written English, the 204,233rd 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).

Forms of aglycone

  • aglycones plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does aglycone mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The non-sugar fragment of a glycoside.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Aglycone in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense non-sugar fragment of a glycoside:

LanguageWords
Frenchaglycone
Portugueseaglicona

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.

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