chymotrypsin
/ˌkaɪ.moʊˈtɹɪp.sɪn/noun
chymotrypsin is spelled C-H-Y-M-O-T-R-Y-P-S-I-N. The wrong spelling people search most is chemotrypsin: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 25 of all searches for the word. Chymotrypsin is a noun meaning “An endopeptidase enzyme that cleaves peptides at the carboxyl side of tyrosine, tryptophan, and phenylalanine…”. The plural of chymotrypsin is chymotrypsins.
How do you spell chymotrypsin?
Chymotrypsin is spelled C-H-Y-M-O-T-R-Y-P-S-I-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 25 of the searches for chymotrypsin 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.
What does chymotrypsin mean?
noun
- 1
An endopeptidase enzyme that cleaves peptides at the carboxyl side of tyrosine, tryptophan, and phenylalanine amino acids.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce chymotrypsin?
- UK /ˌkaɪ.məʊˈtɹɪp.sɪn/
- US /ˌkaɪ.moʊˈtɹɪp.sɪn/
Chymotrypsin has 4 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of chymotrypsin
- chymotrypsins plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is chymotrypsin?
Chymotrypsin appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 161,690th 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).
Chymotrypsin in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense enzyme:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | quimotripsina |
| Spanish | quimotripsina |
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 chymotrypsin come from?
From chyme + -o- + trypsin.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).