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desmin

noun

desmin is spelled D-E-S-M-I-N: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 36 million words in written English, the 184,844th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, desmin means “A protein that is a type III intermediate filament found near the Z line in sarcomeres” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of desmin is desmins.

How many letters and syllables are in desmin?

Letters6: D-E-S-M-I-N
In writingabout once in every 36 million words; the 184,844th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is desmin?

Desmin appears about once in every 36 million words in written English, the 184,844th 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).

Forms of desmin

  • desmins plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does desmin mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A protein that is a type III intermediate filament found near the Z line in sarcomeres.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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