disaccharide
/daɪˈsækəɹaɪd/noun
disaccharide is a noun meaning “Any sugar, such as sucrose, maltose and lactose, consisting of two monosaccharides combined together” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled D-I-S-A-C-C-H-A-R-I-D-E, and it appears about once in every 22 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of disaccharide is disaccharides.
What does disaccharide mean?
noun
- 1
Any sugar, such as sucrose, maltose and lactose, consisting of two monosaccharides combined together.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce disaccharide?
- UK /daɪˈsækəɹaɪd/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of disaccharide
- disaccharides plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is disaccharide?
Disaccharide appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 143,405th 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).
Disaccharide in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a sugar consisting of two monosaccharides:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | disaccharide, diholoside |
| German | Disaccharid |
| Portuguese | dissacarídeo |
| Spanish | disacárido |
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 disaccharide come from?
From di- + saccharide.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).