ankyrin
/ˈæŋkərɪn/noun
ankyrin is a noun meaning “Any of a family of adaptor proteins that mediate the attachment of integral membrane proteins to the spectrin-actin based membrane skeleton” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-K-Y-R-I-N, and it appears about once in every 52 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of ankyrin is ankyrins.
What does ankyrin mean?
noun
- 1
Any of a family of adaptor proteins that mediate the attachment of integral membrane proteins to the spectrin-actin based membrane skeleton.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce ankyrin?
- /ˈæŋkərɪn/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of ankyrin
- ankyrins plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is ankyrin?
Ankyrin appears about once in every 52 million words in written English, the 225,584th 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).
Ankyrin in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense any of a family of adaptor proteins:
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.