autoantibody
noun
autoantibody is a noun meaning “An antibody formed in response to an agent (autoantigen) produced by the organism itself” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-U-T-O-A-N-T-I-B-O-D-Y, and it appears about once in every 26 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of autoantibody is autoantibodies.
What does autoantibody mean?
noun
- 1
An antibody formed in response to an agent (autoantigen) produced by the organism itself.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of autoantibody
- autoantibodies plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is autoantibody?
Autoantibody appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 155,937th 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).
Autoantibody in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | autoanticorps |
| Portuguese | autoanticorpo |
| Spanish | autoanticuerpo |
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 autoantibody come from?
From auto- + antibody.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).