chemotaxis
noun
chemotaxis is a noun meaning “The movement of a cell or an organism in response to a chemical stimulant” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-H-E-M-O-T-A-X-I-S, and it appears about once in every 11 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of chemotaxis is chemotaxes.
What does chemotaxis mean?
noun
- 1
The movement of a cell or an organism in response to a chemical stimulant.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of chemotaxis
- chemotaxes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is chemotaxis?
Chemotaxis appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 101,613th 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).
Chemotaxis in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the movement of a cell or an organism in response to a chemical stimulant:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | quimiotaxis |
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 chemotaxis come from?
From chemo- + taxis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).