cytoskeleton
noun
cytoskeleton is spelled C-Y-T-O-S-K-E-L-E-T-O-N. The wrong spelling people search most is cystoskeleton: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 667 of all searches for the word. Cytoskeleton is a noun meaning “A matrix of intercellular protein, in the forms of microfilaments and microtubules, that provide some…”. The plural of cytoskeleton is cytoskeletons or cytoskeleta.
How do you spell cytoskeleton?
Cytoskeleton is spelled C-Y-T-O-S-K-E-L-E-T-O-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 673 of the searches for cytoskeleton 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 cytoskeleton mean?
noun
- 1
A matrix of intercellular protein, in the forms of microfilaments and microtubules, that provide some rigidity to cells
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce cytoskeleton?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-cytoskeleton.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of cytoskeleton
- cytoskeletons plural
- cytoskeleta plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is cytoskeleton?
Cytoskeleton appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 66,686th 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).
Cytoskeleton in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | cytosquelette |
| German | Zytoskelett |
| Portuguese | citoesqueleto |
| Spanish | citoesqueleto |
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 cytoskeleton come from?
From cyto- + skeleton.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).