autocrine
adjective
autocrine is spelled A-U-T-O-C-R-I-N-E: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 20 million words in written English, the 134,976th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, autocrine means “Of a hormone, neuropeptide, etc.: acting on the cell that produced it” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in autocrine?
| Letters | 9: A-U-T-O-C-R-I-N-E |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 20 million words; the 134,976th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is autocrine?
Autocrine appears about once in every 20 million words in written English, the 134,976th 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).
What rhymes with autocrine?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as autocrine.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: cointreau.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
What does autocrine mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Of a hormone, neuropeptide, etc.: acting on the cell that produced it.
Vasopressin could be an autocrine hormone in the olfactory epithelium.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).