anticodon
an·ti·co·don/ˌæntiˈkəʊdɒn/noun
anticodon is a noun meaning “A sequence of three nucleotides in transfer RNA that binds to the complementary triplet (codon) in messenger RNA to specify an amino acid during…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-T-I-C-O-D-O-N and has 4 syllables (an·ti·co·don), and it appears about once in every 45 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of anticodon is anticodons.
What does anticodon mean?
noun
- 1
A sequence of three nucleotides in transfer RNA that binds to the complementary triplet (codon) in messenger RNA to specify an amino acid during protein synthesis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce anticodon?
- /ˌæntiˈkəʊdɒn/
- /ˌæntaɪ-/
Anticodon has 4 syllables, split an·ti·co·don in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of anticodon
- anticodons plural
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How common is anticodon?
Anticodon appears about once in every 45 million words in written English, the 206,808th 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).
Anticodon in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense sequence of three nucleotides:
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Where does anticodon come from?
From anti- + codon.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).