cystathionine
noun
cystathionine is spelled C-Y-S-T-A-T-H-I-O-N-I-N-E. The wrong spelling people search most is cystathione: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 3 in 10 of all searches for the word. Cystathionine is a noun meaning “An intermediate, 2-amino-4-(2-amino-2-carboxy-ethyl) thio-butanoic acid, in the biosynthesis of cysteine”.
How many letters and syllables are in cystathionine?
| Letters | 13: C-Y-S-T-A-T-H-I-O-N-I-N-E |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 54 million words; the 228,409th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, cystathione, about 10 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 cystathionine?
Cystathionine is spelled C-Y-S-T-A-T-H-I-O-N-I-N-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 3 in 10 of the searches for cystathionine 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 cystathionine?
Cystathionine appears about once in every 54 million words in written English, the 228,409th 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 does cystathionine mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An intermediate, 2-amino-4-(2-amino-2-carboxy-ethyl) thio-butanoic acid, in the biosynthesis of cysteine.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).