amplicon
noun
amplicon is spelled A-M-P-L-I-C-O-N: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 42 million words in written English, the 199,120th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, amplicon means “A piece of DNA or RNA formed as the product of natural or artificial amplification events, as in a polymerase chain reaction” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of amplicon is amplicons.
How many letters and syllables are in amplicon?
| Letters | 8: A-M-P-L-I-C-O-N |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 42 million words; the 199,120th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is amplicon?
Amplicon appears about once in every 42 million words in written English, the 199,120th 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).
What rhymes with amplicon?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as amplicon.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: complain.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of amplicon
- amplicons plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does amplicon mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A piece of DNA or RNA formed as the product of natural or artificial amplification events, as in a polymerase chain reaction
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Amplicon in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense piece of DNA or RNA formed as the product of amplification events:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | amplicon |
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 amplicon come from?
From ampli(fy) + -icon (as in replicon).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).