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anatoxin

noun

anatoxin is spelled A-N-A-T-O-X-I-N: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 87 million words in written English, the 297,763rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, anatoxin means “A bacterial toxin (usually an exotoxin) whose toxicity has been weakened or suppressed” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of anatoxin is anatoxins.

How many letters and syllables are in anatoxin?

Letters8: A-N-A-T-O-X-I-N
In writingabout once in every 87 million words; the 297,763rd 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 anatoxin?

Anatoxin appears about once in every 87 million words in written English, the 297,763rd 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 anatoxin

  • anatoxins plural

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

What does anatoxin mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A bacterial toxin (usually an exotoxin) whose toxicity has been weakened or suppressed

  2. 2

    A powerful neurotoxin, one of many toxins produced by several species of cyanobacterium.

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

Anatoxin in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense toxoid:

LanguageWords
Frenchanatoxine
GermanAnatoxin
Portuguesetoxoide, anatoxina

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 anatoxin come from?

From ana- + toxin.

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

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