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aminoacyl

noun

aminoacyl is spelled A-M-I-N-O-A-C-Y-L: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 150,355th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, aminoacyl means “Any of class of organic radicals, formed by the removal of a hydroxyl group from an amino acid” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of aminoacyl is aminoacyls.

How many letters and syllables are in aminoacyl?

Letters9: A-M-I-N-O-A-C-Y-L
In writingabout once in every 25 million words; the 150,355th 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 aminoacyl?

Aminoacyl appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 150,355th 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 aminoacyl

  • aminoacyls plural

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

What does aminoacyl mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Any of class of organic radicals, formed by the removal of a hydroxyl group from an amino acid.

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

Aminoacyl in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense class of organic radicals:

LanguageWords
Spanishaminoacil

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 aminoacyl come from?

From amino + acyl.

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

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