capsid
/ˈkæp.sɪd/noun
capsid is spelled C-A-P-S-I-D. The wrong spelling people search most is caspid: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 36 of all searches for the word. Capsid is a noun meaning “The outer protein shell of a virus”. The plural of capsid is capsids.
How many letters and syllables are in capsid?
| Letters | 6: C-A-P-S-I-D |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 6 million words; the 72,332nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, caspid, about 20 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 capsid?
Capsid is spelled C-A-P-S-I-D. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 36 of the searches for capsid 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 capsid?
Capsid appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 72,332nd 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 capsid?
- /ˈkæp.sɪd/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-capsid.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of capsid
- capsids plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does capsid mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The outer protein shell of a virus.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does capsid come from?
From French capside.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).