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antineutrino

noun

antineutrino is a noun meaning “The antiparticle of the neutrino” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-T-I-N-E-U-T-R-I-N-O, and it appears about once in every 31 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of antineutrino is antineutrinos.

What does antineutrino mean?

noun

  1. 1

    The antiparticle of the neutrino.

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

Forms of antineutrino

  • antineutrinos plural

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

How common is antineutrino?

Antineutrino appears about once in every 31 million words in written English, the 169,822nd 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).

Antineutrino in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense the antiparticle of the neutrino:

LanguageWords
Portugueseantineutrino
Spanishantineutrino

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 antineutrino come from?

From anti- + neutrino.

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