autosome
/ˈɔtəˌsoʊm/noun
autosome is a noun meaning “Any eukaryotic chromosome other than sex chromosomes” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-U-T-O-S-O-M-E, and it appears about once in every 60 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of autosome is autosomes.
What does autosome mean?
noun
- 1
Any eukaryotic chromosome other than sex chromosomes.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce autosome?
- UK /ˈɔːtəsəʊm/
- US /ˈɔtəˌsoʊm/
- Canada /ˈɑtəzoʊm/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of autosome
- autosomes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is autosome?
Autosome appears about once in every 60 million words in written English, the 243,301st 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).
Autosome in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense any chromosome other than sex chromosomes:
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 autosome come from?
From auto- + -some, from Ancient Greek σῶμα (sôma, “body”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).