asparagine
/əˈspæɹ.ə.dʒiːn/noun
asparagine is spelled A-S-P-A-R-A-G-I-N-E. The wrong spelling people search most is asperagine: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 67 of all searches for the word. Asparagine is a noun meaning “A nonessential amino acid C₄H₈N₂O₃ found in plants such as asparagus”.
How many letters and syllables are in asparagine?
| Letters | 10: A-S-P-A-R-A-G-I-N-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 12 million words; the 102,771st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, asperagine, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell asparagine?
Asparagine is spelled A-S-P-A-R-A-G-I-N-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 67 of the searches for asparagine in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is asparagine?
Asparagine appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 102,771st 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).
How do you pronounce asparagine?
- UK /əˈspæɹ.ə.dʒiːn/
Asparagine has 4 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Tesco250-asparagine.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What does asparagine mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A nonessential amino acid C₄H₈N₂O₃ found in plants such as asparagus.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Asparagine in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense nonessential amino acid C4H8N2O3:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | asparagine |
| German | Asparagin |
| Portuguese | asparagina |
| Spanish | asparagina |
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 asparagine come from?
From French asparagine, from Latin asparagus + French -ine. By surface analysis, asparagus + -ine.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).